Mazel

Feisty Sasha Saunders, a rabbi's daughter, leaves her family's rural Polish shtetl for the excitement of prewar Warsaw. There she joins a troupe of brilliant young Yiddish actors intent on creating new theater from old experience. Out of an audition gone wrong Sasha becomes a star, adored and celebrated, and a devotee of Warsaw's decadent glamour. Though beautiful and flamboyant, Sasha is no fool. In fact, her twist-and-turn-filled life leaves her something of an armchair philosopher, always wondering, How did I get here from there? You can never be certain, Sasha knows, because there is such…