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Jack Kugelmass is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of The Miracle of Intervale Avenue: The Story of a Jewish Congregation in the South Bronx and Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and editor of Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays on American Jewry.Jonathan Boyarin, an anthropologist and ethnographer, is author of Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory, Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory, and Thinking in Jewish.Zachary M. Baker is Head Librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Our Towns | |
What Is a Pinkes? | p. 51 |
The Court of the Plyaters | p. 53 |
At the Market | p. 58 |
Novoyelne | p. 64 |
The Twenty-first of Adar: The Great Day | p. 65 |
The Burial Society | p. 68 |
Girls' Kheyders | p. 70 |
Anarchist Activities | p. 72 |
The Struggle for the Right to Work | p. 76 |
Light and Shadow | p. 79 |
The Jewish Porters of Warsaw | p. 81 |
When Anti-Semitism Raged | p. 87 |
Sports Clubs and Self-Defense | p. 88 |
The Last Meeting of the Community Council in Kutno | p. 91 |
Townspeople | |
The Blind Cantor | p. 97 |
Reb Moyshe-Yudl, the Traveling Tailor | p. 99 |
Ayzikl the Bachelor | p. 101 |
Zabalye the Coachwoman | p. 101 |
The Mute | p. 103 |
Esther-Khaye the Zogerin ["Sayer"] | p. 104 |
Tall Libe | p. 106 |
Reb Dvoyre Mash | p. 107 |
Crazy Sora | p. 108 |
Shloyme-Akive, the Town Fool | p. 109 |
Alter, the Village Peddler | p. 111 |
The Kozhenitser Rebe | p. 113 |
Lifeways | |
Customs, Symbols, and Ceremonies | p. 119 |
The Healer in Bilgoray | p. 122 |
The Town's New Torah Scroll | p. 124 |
The Angry Dance | p. 125 |
A Disrupted Seder Night | p. 126 |
A Purim in the Region of Sants | p. 129 |
The Death of the Bukovsker Rebe, Dovid Shapiro | p. 131 |
Concerning the Opponents of Hasidism in Lizhensk | p. 132 |
A Strike in Kheyder | p. 133 |
My "Days" in Slonim | p. 135 |
From American Universities to the Polish Yeshivas | p. 138 |
The First Yiddish Library | p. 140 |
My Grandmother Sews Her Own Burial Shroud | p. 141 |
Events | |
The Butchers of Zhirardov Commission a Torah Scroll | p. 145 |
The Righteousness of Revolutionaries | p. 146 |
The Ruined Wedding | p. 148 |
The First Suicide in Town | p. 150 |
A Hasidic Demonstration | p. 152 |
The Dispute Over the Succession to the Rabbinate | p. 154 |
An Escape from Certain Death | p. 158 |
A Murder in the Forest | p. 160 |
The Pogrom in 1936 | p. 162 |
A Communist Assembly Elects a Zionist as Representative | p. 164 |
Jewish Fighters on the Battlefields of Spain | p. 166 |
Legends and Folklore | |
The Ancestors' Merit and the Blessings of Laughter | p. 171 |
Three Parables of the Dubner Magid | p. 173 |
The Slaughtering Knife and the Saw | p. 174 |
Khayim-Yisroel Melamed and the Kozhenitser Magid | p. 175 |
In Khorostkov During the First World War | p. 179 |
Dear God! | p. 182 |
Holocaust | |
A Final Moral Lesson | p. 189 |
The Typhus Epidemic and a Wedding at the Cemetery | p. 192 |
How I Read Yiddish Literature to an S.S. Captain | p. 195 |
Terror in Vishnevits | p. 198 |
The Families in the Bunkers | p. 200 |
How I Hid Twelve Jews | p. 203 |
Wanderings of a Child | p. 204 |
My Escape from the Ditches of Slaughter | p. 208 |
Passover: Under the Rule of Hitlerite Tyranny | p. 212 |
I Was a German "Soldier" | p. 218 |
The Capture of Girls | p. 225 |
Kol Nidre in Auschwitz | p. 231 |
The Transport from Auschwitz | p. 234 |
Return | |
Searching for the Life That Was | p. 243 |
Belkhatov Without Jews | p. 244 |
My Tragic Night in Zhelekhov | p. 246 |
A Visit to My Town of Bilgoray | p. 248 |
End of Sentence | p. 249 |
The City Without Jews | p. 254 |
In the Tracks of the Jewish Life That Disappeared | p. 262 |
The Townspeople Abroad | |
The Landsmanshaft in Montreal: Book of Memory to the Jewish Community of Shebreshin | p. 269 |
Bibliography of Eastern European (Yizkor) Memorial Books | |
Geographic Index and Gazetteer | |
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