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Note: An f following a page number indicates an illustration. This general index covers the folktales in this volume ; the commentaries and notes to the tales are indexed in volume V. Consult the motif and tale types indexes in this volume for motifs and tale types. abduction/kidnapping, 26–28, 207–9, 214–15 Aktionen (Nazi roundups of Jews), 141, 141n Aleinu prayer, 422, 422n America, immigration to, 313–14, 480–81 anecdotes. See humor animal dealer, 33–35 Anshel (Amschel), 81–83, 81n anti-Semitism, 168–70, 221–23 apostate as minyan tenth, 133–34 arrack (brandy), 236, 236n atonement, 230 Ba‘al Shem blessing, 168 bad luck, 273 bad vs. good, 338–39, 473–74 Balta fair, 2–5, 3f bank note, counterfeit, 236–37 Barukh the carpenter, 244–46 beggars, 263–64 beggar’s secret, Gentile, 207–9 beit din (Jewish court of law), 473–74, 473n beit midrash (religious school), 144–45, 144n bekeshe (long coat), 162, 162n Bendzin (Poland), 192 boots made from a Torah scroll, 229–31 boy and girl who were destined for each other, 356–58, 358n boy who was kidnapped and brought to Russia, 214–15 bundles of troubles, 306–7 burial, 28 cantor, elderly, 427 cantors (half is mine and half is yours), 437–40 captives’ redemption, 186–88 catch the thief, 398–400 cemetery, 29f change of place/luck, 273 charity, 92–94, 186–88, 313–14, 338, 348–51 charms, 118–19 Chelem, town of fools, 452, 455f cholent (slow-cooked stew), 313, 313n Christianity, converts from, 230 colors of flowers, meaning of, 342 Communism vs. religion, 486 complaints against God, 422 congregants, 431–32 converts to Judaism, 230, 387–88 Cossacks, 221–23 counterfeit bank note, 236–37 coveting, 326–28 curse of a short life, 229 Dayenu the minister, 381 dead, reviving of, 459–60 demons and spirits under the fingernails, 33–35 destiny in marriage, 356–58, 358n Dniester River, 221, 223 ducats (coins), 4, 4n Index 619  620  Index elderly cantor, 427 elderly’s wooden dishes, 245–46 Eliezer the water carrier, 334–36 Elijah the Prophet blessings of, 102–4 and the vanishing house, 21–23 visits a family, 446–47 wine of, 102–4 emissaries from the World to Come, 452 emissaries of the Holy One, 140 Ephraim,Yosef, 21 exodus fromYampol on Purim, 152–56 face answers to face in water, 317–20 father who has lived a full life, 33, 33n fingernails, demons and spirits under, 33–35 fireflies on Rosh Hashanah, 140–41 First World War, 76, 162–63 Fischmann, David, 192–95 flower colors, meaning of, 342 frankincense, 404 Galician Hasidism, 76, 76n Gan Eden (Garden of Eden), 473, 473n Gehenna (Hell), 473, 473n Gemara (in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds), 64, 64n Gentile beggar’s secret, 207–9 Gentile who wanted to screw the Jew, 236–37 German vs. Polish Jews, 162–63 God complaints against, 422 help from, 278–79 messenger of, 365 secret name of, 27n gold ingot, 168 good deeds, 282–83 good vs. bad, 338–39, 473–74 gossip as worse than profaning the Sabbath, 255–57 goy (non-Jew), 214, 214n Greidinger, Froyim (or Greidinger or Greiding), 459–60 H.ad Gadya (H.tital), 192–95, 194n haggadah (book of Passover rituals), 34, 34n, 58, 58n halakhah (Jewish law), 162, 162n half mine and half yours, 437–40 Isaac, 153, 154, 155 Halperin,Yosef, 92–94 Haman, 152 hamantashen, 152, 152n hametz (forbidden food at Passover), 58, 58n happy man, 76–77 Hasidism, 76, 76n Havdalah, 70, 70n, 123 H.ayyim, Reb, 64–67, 437–38 h.azzan (cantor), 140, 140n Heaven, trial in, 338–39 Heaven, who has it better in, 473–74 heretic’s death, 466 Hershele the jester, 326–28 as a cantor, 437–38 High Holy Days, 109 historical tales exodus fromYampol on Purim, 152–56 what really caused World War I, 162–63 Holocaust miracles fireflies on Rosh Hashanah, 140–41 white doves, 144–45 Holy Land, and the bottle of oil, 53 house that vanished with all inhabitants, 21–23 humor cantors, 427, 437–40 complaints against God, 422 congregants, 431–32 Elijah the Prophet, 446–47 good vs. bad, 473–74 half mine and half yours, 437–40 heretics, 466 illiteracy, 477 immigration to America, 480–81 Jew from Mád, 404–6 Jewish innkeeper, 410, 412 little fish, big fish, 418 rabbis, 434–35 reviving the dead, 459–60 Stalin, 483, 486 thievery, 446...

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