The Immigrant

The Immigrant

Book by Mark Harelik
Lyrics by Sarah Knapp
Music by Steven M. Alper

The Immigrant

The Immigrant

Book by Mark Harelik
Lyrics by Sarah Knapp
Music by Steven M. Alper

Overview

The Immigrant is the biographical story of the author's grandfather, a young Jew who fled the pogroms of Czarist Russia in 1909 and pushed his banana cart into the tiny Baptist community of Hamilton, Texas. Given shelter by a childless older couple, he sent for his wife, raised a family, and made this town his home. A true story of parents and children, newcomers and natives, Christians and Jews, and the realization of the American Dream.

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Authors

Author

Mark Harelik

Author

Sarah Knapp

Steven M. Alper

Steven M. Alper is a music composer, primarily for the theatre, as well as an orchestrator and author. He wrote and orchestrated the score for the musical The Immigrant, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations. The production received ...
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