Our Small Group

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgement 5
3. Contents 7
4. Foreword 11
5. STORIES
6. Kola Road 27
7. The Immortal Orange 42
8. It Had To Be 50
9. The Witness 55
10. From My Estates 65
11. Muni The Bird-Seller 85
12. The Bird 93
13. The Squire's Moustaches 100
14. Black Oak 107
15. ESSAYS
16. Thinking With Ivre-Teitch 119
17. Jeivishness and Yiddish 122
18. Isaac Katznelson 129
19. Jerusalem and Yiddish Literature 132
20. Rambam or Maimonides 138
21. Sanctuaries in Ruin 145
22. Triumphal March 155
23. Why Not Canonise a Second Book of Books? 162
24. The Argument Around Shy lock 168
25. The Poetry of Our Holy Days 174
26. Shigayon Chagall 177
27. The Old Tree in Vence 183
28. PLAYS
29. A String Of Pearls 189
30. Small Heroes 199
31. Shylock Laughs 204
32. Scene Seven From "The Hotzmach Play" 209
33. POEMS
34. I Was Not in Treblinka 215
35. I Should Have Died with You 215
36. Edgar Allan Poe's Raven 216
37. Song About Myself 218
38. On Your Earth, Jerusalem 219
39. A Dream After Maidanek 221
40. Rechov Zeitlin in Tel Aviv 221
41. One Summer 221
42. The Last Words of Don Henriquez 223
43. To the Jewish People 228
44. Homer and Isaiah 229
45. Sutzkever 230
46. Jewish Street 232
47. Like Groping Fingers 232
48. A Cartload of Shoes 233
49. Peretz Markish 234
50. From Babylon 235
51. The Glory of Sinai 236
52. The Dead Do Not Praise God 238
53. Holy Name 240
54. Souls of Jewish Towns 241
55. Back to the Ghetto 243
56. The End 245
57. Shlomo Jelichovski 247
58. Partisan Song 252
59. In the Ghetto 253
60. God of Mercy 254
61. Boots 255
62. East 256
63. Arthur Ziegelboim 257
64. Peretz and Bontche Shiveig in the Warsaw Ghetto 259
65. Our Small Group 261
66. My Yiddish 263
67. My Son 264
68. Beauty 265
69. A Jew Stands at the Gates of Tears 266
70. They 272
71. Abraham Liesin and I 272
72. Seven Brothers 273
73. The Song of Love 274
74. My Grandmother 276
75. My Grandfather 276
76. Grandfather Dies 277
77. Break of Day 279
78. I Am a Pitcher 281
79. The Lovers of Israel in the Death Camp Belshitz 282
80. The Ruins of Poland 282
81. Epitaph 283
82. A Song of the Dean of St. Patrick Dr. Jonathan Swift and the Yiddish Rhymster Itzik Manger 284
83. Bialik and Mendele 286
84. Yiddish 288
85. Song on the Seas to My Mother-Tongue 291
86. A Song About Songs of Today and Timeless Songs 292
87. Three Old-Time Friends 294
88. Poem About the Soviet Yiddish Writers 297
89. A Jew in Stockholm 302
90. Footsteps 302
91. The Poet's Death 304
92. Perhaps 304
93. Mikhoels 306
94. At Night 307
95. My Heart-Wrung Cry 309
96. A Town of Starving Jews 310
97. Night 311
98. Where Shall I Flee? 313
99. Jew 314
100. When Will Day Come? 319
101. I Am His Wife 320
102. I Am a Jew 321
103. After Treblinka 325
104. Winston Churchill 325
105. The Levies' Song of Praise 326
106. Biographical Notes 327
107. Glossary 334
108. Bibliography 340
109. Backmatter 347