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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword
Part One: Learning Yiddish
1. Out of the Dumpster
2. Bread and Wine
3. “Come Back after Yontef!”
4. “What Is Mendele Doing in a Fruit Basket on the Floor?”
Part Two: On the Road
5. A Ritual of Cultural Transmission
6. “Don’t You Know That Yiddish Is Dead?”
7. A Day in the Life
8. A Brief History of Yiddish Literature
9. “People Are Dying Today Who Never Died Before”
10. “Pretty Soon We’ll Have a Whole Forest in Israel and No More Members Here”
11. “Love and Peace”
12. “Ostroff! Sea Gate!”
13. The Great Newark Book Heist
Part Three: “Him I Don’t Talk To!”
14. “You’re a Liar!”
15. “They’re Tearing Apart the Library”
16. A Ghost in the Attic
17. “If Not Higher”
18. “Hitler’s Fault”
Part Four: Ganvenen dem Grenets—Crossing the Border
19. Squandered at the Concord
20. Kaddish
21. A Job for the Young
22. The Four Corners of the Earth
23. Back in the U.S.S.R.
Part Five: Bringing It All Back Home
24. Der Oylem Redt —The World Takes Notice
25. A Home of Our Own
26. Immortality
27. The Valise at the Bottom of the Sea
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Algonquin
Copyright
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