Schlepping Through the Alps My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd

Name: Schlepping Through the Alps My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
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ISBN: 9780345477736

ISBN-10: 0345477731

ISBN-13: 9780345477736

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sam Apple

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Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties. When New York-based writer Sam Apple hears about this one-of-a-kind eccentric, he flies overseas and signs on as a shepherd’s apprentice. For thoroughly urban, slightly neurotic Sam, stumbling along in borrowed boots and burdened with a lot more baggage than his backpack, the task is far from a walk in Central Park. Demonstrating no immediate natural talent for shepherding, he tries to earn the respect of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.93" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

SAM APPLE, who grew up in Houston, is a graduate of the creative nonfiction MFA program at Columbia University. Apple’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Forward, and The Jerusalem Report as well as on Salon.com. He currently lives in Brooklyn and is a contributing book editor at Nerve. From the Hardcover edition.