Yiddishlands: A Memoir

CONTENTS

I Table Talk 1. The Rebbe Elimeylekh • 7 2. The Dybbuk • 12 3. Café Rudnitsky • 16 4. Bread • 21 5. Prayer for the Tsar • 26 6. Scribal Errors • 34 7. Malvina’s Roses • 41 8. The Watercarrier • 47 9. Yeast • 51 10. Beloved Fatherland • 57 11. The Black Canopy • 64 12. May Day • 70 13. The Wooden Box • 75 14. The Last Seder Night • 81 15. Lisbon • 86 contents II Talking Back 16. Playing Solitaire • 97 17. The Soirée • 102 18. Cape Cod • 109 19. Double Feature • 115 20. Male Bonding • 119 21. Études • 125 III Jewspeak 22. Sutzkever’s Address • 137 23. Leybl’s Ark • 147 24. Between Two Mountains • 154 25. Kotsk • 161 26. The Sale of Joseph • 173 27. The Two Bulvanes • 177 28. Yom Kippur • 185 29. New York Jew • 189 30. Partisans’ Hymn • 196 31. The Menorah • 201 32. Dream House • 207 Genealogy • 213 Masha Roskies Sings: Liner Notes • 223 Yiddishlands This page intentionally left blank ...