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n. (plural of wandering star English)
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Wandering Stars is an anthology of Jewish fantasy and science fiction, edited by Jack Dann, originally published by Harper & Row in 1974. It represented, according to the book cover, "the first time in science fiction that the Jew - and the richness of his themes and particular points of view -- will appear without a mask." In his introduction, "Why Me?", Isaac Asimov discussed how many Jewish science fiction writers prior to that time had used gentile pen names in order to get published: "Many of the Jewish pulp writers, however, used pen names as a matter of sound business. A story entitled 'War Gods of the Oyster-Men of Deneb' didn't carry conviction if it was written by someone named Chaim Itzkowitz." He then goes on to discuss the pen names of various Jewish writers included in this book. Wandering Stars is therefore of historical significance as the first science fiction anthology where Jewish writers openly identified themselves as such. It was followed by a second anthology, More Wandering Stars, also edited by Jack Dann, published by Doubleday in 1981.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Why Me?" by Isaac Asimov
- "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi" by William Tenn
- "The Golem" by Avram Davidson
- "Unto the Fourth Generation by Isaac Asimov
- "Look, You Think You've Got Troubles" by Carol Carr
- "Goslin Day" by Avram Davidson
- "The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV" by Robert Silverberg
- "Trouble with Water" by Horace L. Gold
- "Gather Blue Roses" by Pamela Sargent
- "The Jew Bird" by Bernard Malamud
- "Paradise Last" by Geo. Alec Effinger
- "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" by Robert Sheckley
- "Jachid and Jechidah" by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- "I'm Looking for Kadak" by Harlan Ellison
Wandering Stars ( Yiddish: Blonzhende Stern or Blundzhende Shtern) is a novel by Sholem Aleichem, serialized in Warsaw newspapers from 1909 to 1911. In it, Leibel, the son of a wealthy shtetl family, falls in love with cantor's daughter Reizel, and both fall for a traveling Yiddish theatre group. Separating and becoming successful performers in the West, under the names of Leo Rafalesco and Rosa Spivak, they eventually find each other again in America.
Two English translations of the novel exist: a 1952 abridged version by Frances Butwin (Wandering Star), and a 2009 unabridged version by Aliza Shevrin (with a foreword by Tony Kushner).
The yiddish theatre of Israel, Yiddishpiel adapted a musical-stage production based on the novel, with book by Aya Kaplan and Joshua Sobol and direction by Aya Kaplan. The production opened in January 2016 and closed by March 2016.
Usage examples of "wandering stars".
He tried to imagine fixed stars and wandering stars, spheres and epicycles, all these words that Liath used so easily-but it only made him impatient.
Here in these galleries she had set her memory pictures of the cycles of the wandering stars and the precession of the equinoxes.
It is a circle of constellations, each representing one of the Houses of Night, and through these houses move the Sun and the Moon and the wandering stars known as planets.
The wandering stars moved on the backdrop of the sphere of the fixed stars, the highest of the seven spheres beyond which lay the Chamber of Light.
The cleric in attendance said it was the emperor's crown, the one he wore when he went abroad in his royal dignity, and that each gem represented one of the wandering stars.
But the movements of the wandering stars are constant, so we can predict where they'll be at any date in the future.
She could not see the fixed stars, the wandering stars, or even the moon.
They could predict with accuracy the new appearance and subsequent motion or the wandering stars, while the merest glimpse of the moon told them in what phase it stood, for each night of the moon-month bore its own special name, derived from the progress of the moon through its cycle.