[14] Thick chicken soup with balls of flour.
[15] Father.
[16] Of the bridegroom in Shool to the Reading of the Law.
[17] The Friday nearest December 21.
[18] Diminutive of Tate = Father.
[19] No unbaptized Jew may become an official in the courts in Russia.
[20] For the soul of the dead, to wash and dry itself.
[21] A verst is .663 of a mile.
[22] A Lithuanian mile = 5.56 English miles.
[23] A Jew taken from his home as a child, under Nicholas I, estranged from his family and his faith, and made to serve in the army.