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