From the Shtetl to the Stage

Alexander Granach, who died while he was acting on Broadway in 1945, brilliantly relates the remarkable story of his unlikely path from a poverty-stricken, rough-and-tumble childhood to success on the German stage

Introduction to the Transaction EditionAcknowledgementsIBear the Name of a Friendly ManHow I Came into This World on a Rainy NightHow I Was Exorcised of a Little Toohless GoblinMy Big Brothers, or One Is MissingMama DreamsTwo Families--Four FriendshipsThe First VictimHe Could Not Read the Bible, But Niether Had He Heard the Sermon of the Village PriestWe Go Out into the Wide World, but It Wears the Same FaceThe Village Spits Us OutThe County Seat Horodenka--Fierce CompetitionMy Rabbi-Teacher, Schimshale from Milnitz, for Whom You Would Do Absolutely AnythingPerhaps My First PartMoische, Does One Smash Windows?Our Family Grows Smaller, Our Poverty GreaterMy Brother Schmiel, with the Rich Imagination, Comes HomeEveryone Fights with the Weapons He HasPeople and the Awakening of Love in HorodenkaAway from Home It Is Cold--but InstructiveCuriosityIt Is Good to Have a Big Brother When You Are Far from HomeMalkaThe TheaterA Dog, a Cart, and a WomanFirst Steps in BerlinThe WordThere is Something in a NameAnd the Crooked Shall be StraightAlas for a Beautiful World!Almost a Stranger in My Native LandThe Prospect for the Common ManLet People See What People Are Like!"We'll March Right into Sunny Italy!"Roads Always Lead SomewhereLife Comes to Meet You HalfwayA Promise That I Shall Always Keep"Home, Home--There's Where a Welcome Waits You!"A Man Is Not a TreeInterrupted RehearsalsShylock