Table of Contents
Frontmatter — Acknowledgement — Contents — Foreword — STORIES — Kola Road — The Immortal Orange — It Had To Be — The Witness — From My Estates — Muni The Bird-Seller — The Bird — The Squire's Moustaches — Black Oak — ESSAYS — Thinking With Ivre-Teitch — Jeivishness and Yiddish — Isaac Katznelson — Jerusalem and Yiddish Literature — Rambam or Maimonides — Sanctuaries in Ruin — Triumphal March — Why Not Canonise a Second Book of Books? — The Argument Around Shy lock — The Poetry of Our Holy Days — Shigayon Chagall — The Old Tree in Vence — PLAYS — A String Of Pearls — Small Heroes — Shylock Laughs — Scene Seven From "The Hotzmach Play" — POEMS — I Was Not in Treblinka — I Should Have Died with You — Edgar Allan Poe's Raven — Song About Myself — On Your Earth, Jerusalem — A Dream After Maidanek — Rechov Zeitlin in Tel Aviv — One Summer — The Last Words of Don Henriquez — To the Jewish People — Homer and Isaiah — Sutzkever — Jewish Street — Like Groping Fingers — A Cartload of Shoes — Peretz Markish — From Babylon — The Glory of Sinai — The Dead Do Not Praise God — Holy Name — Souls of Jewish Towns — Back to the Ghetto — The End — Shlomo Jelichovski — Partisan Song — In the Ghetto — God of Mercy — Boots — East — Arthur Ziegelboim — Peretz and Bontche Shiveig in the Warsaw Ghetto — Our Small Group — My Yiddish — My Son — Beauty — A Jew Stands at the Gates of Tears — They — Abraham Liesin and I — Seven Brothers — The Song of Love — My Grandmother — My Grandfather — Grandfather Dies — Break of Day — I Am a Pitcher — The Lovers of Israel in the Death Camp Belshitz — The Ruins of Poland — Epitaph — A Song of the Dean of St. Patrick Dr. Jonathan Swift and the Yiddish Rhymster Itzik Manger — Bialik and Mendele — Yiddish — Song on the Seas to My Mother-Tongue — A Song About Songs of Today and Timeless Songs — Three Old-Time Friends — Poem About the Soviet Yiddish Writers — A Jew in Stockholm — Footsteps — The Poet's Death — Perhaps — Mikhoels — At Night — My Heart-Wrung Cry — A Town of Starving Jews — Night — Where Shall I Flee? — Jew — When Will Day Come? — I Am His Wife — I Am a Jew — After Treblinka — Winston Churchill — The Levies' Song of Praise — Biographical Notes — Glossary — Bibliography — Backmatter
