Smile Upon Us, Lord review " a comic epic 'Waiting for Jehovah'
Barbican, LondonThe history of eastern Europe weighs heavily in this period piece in which three old Jewish men rage against life and GodA stonecutter, a water carrier and a bankrupt grocer set off from their shtetl for the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" on a mission to save stonecutter Efraim's son from execution for a political murder. The catastrophic history of eastern European Jewry weighs heavily on their shoulders a…