CONTENTS

[Introduction]xi
I.[Within the Pale]1
II.[Children of the Law]29
III.[Both Their Houses]42
IV.[Daily Bread]60
V.[I Remember]79
VI.[The Tree of Knowledge]111
VII.[The Boundaries Stretch]137
VIII.[The Exodus]163
IX.[The Promised Land]180
X.[Initiation]206
XI.["My Country"]222
XII.[Miracles]241
XIII.[A Child's Paradise]252
XIV.[Manna]264
XV.[Tarnished Laurels]276
XVI.[Dover Street]286
XVII.[The Landlady]301
XVIII.[The Burning Bush]321
XIX.[A Kingdom in the Slums]337
XX.[The Heritage]359
[Acknowledgments]365
[Glossary]367

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Mashke and Fetchke]Frontispiece
[The Grave-Digger of Polotzk]24
[Heder (Hebrew School) for Boys in Polotzk]34
[The Wood Market, Polotzk]52
[My Father's Portrait]70
[My Grandfather's House, where I was born]80
[The Meat Market, Polotzk]98
[Sabbath Loaves for Sale (Bread Market, Polotzk)]124
[Winter Scene on the Dvina]144
[Union Place (Boston) where my New Home waited for Me]184
[Twoscore of my Fellow-Citizens—Public School, Chelsea]230
[Wheeler Street, in the Lower South End of Boston]264
[Harrison Avenue is the Heart of the South End Ghetto]288
[I liked to stand and look down on the Dim Tangle of Railroad Tracks below]298
[The Natural History Club had Frequent Field Excursions]328
[Bates Hall, where I spent my Longest Hours in the Library]342
[The Famous Study, that was fit to have been preserved as a Shrine]346
[The Tide had rushed in, stealing away our Seaweed Cushions]362