My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
by
Sam Apple
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
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...