Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Epigraph vi
4. Contents vii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Never-Ending Jewish Tales and the Jewish Question xiii
7. Tales
8. The Operated Jew (1893) 1
9. The Operated Goy (1922) 27
10. Two Saviors (1877) 37
11. The Shabbes Goy (1894) 49
12. The Conciliator of Christendom (1898) 58
13. The Story about the Sorcerer (1902) 80
14. If Not Higher (1906) 84
15. The Image (1906) 88
16. The Golem (1908) 90
17. The Wedding That Came without Its Band (1909) 92
18. Two Anti-Semites (ca. 1909–1910) 98
19. Happiness (1909) 105
20. The Rebbe of Apte and Tsar Nicholas (1912) 108
21. The Penitent: A Tale (1912) 112
22. The Clever Rabbi (1912) 119
23. The Rabbi in Jail (1914) 124
24. King for Three Days (1919) 130
25. The Pope’s Game of Chess (1919) 134
26. The Enemies (ca. 1920) 140
27. The Convert (ca. 1920) 144
28. They’re Leaving . . . (ca. 1925) 147
29. Rabbi Leyb Saves the Jews of Prague from Evil Decrees (1927) 154
30. Pogrom (1930) 159
31. The Fairy Tale about Technology (1935) 165
32. A Letter to God (ca. 1935) 168
33. A Shocking Tale of a Viceroy (ca. 1935) 172
34. The Zaddik (1937) 178
35. The Ba’al Shem Tov and the Sorcerer (ca. 1950–1960) 182
36. The City without Jews: A Novel about the Near Future (1924) 186
37. Essays
38. The Jewish Question (1896) 279
39. The Essence of Survival (1935) 288
40. Notes 295
41. Bibliography 297
42. Biographies of Authors and Editors 303
43. Credits 317
44. Index 319
45. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 323