H. F.
London, March, 1911
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Jewish Publication Society of America desires to acknowledge the valuable aid which Mr. A. S. Freidus, of the Department of Jewish Literature, in the New York Public Library, extended to it in compiling the biographical data relating to the authors whose stories appear in English garb in the present volume. Some of the authors that are living in America courteously furnished the Society with the data referring to their own biographies.
The following sources have been consulted for the biographies: The Jewish Encyclopædia; Wiener, History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century; Pinnes, Histoire de la Littérature Judéo-Allemande, and the Yiddish version of the same, Die Geschichte vun der jüdischer Literatur; Baal-Mahashabot, Geklibene Schriften; Sefer Zikkaron le-Sofere Yisrael ha-hayyim ittanu ka-Yom; Eisenstadt, Hakme Yisrael be-Amerika; the memoirs preceding the collected works of some of the authors; and scattered articles in European and American Yiddish periodicals.
CONTENTS
| Preface | [5] |
| Acknowledgment | [8] |
| Reuben Asher Braubes | |
| The Misfortune | [13] |
| Jehalel (Judah Löb Lewin) | |
| Earth of Palestine | [29] |
| Isaac Löb Perez | |
| A Woman's Wrath | [55] |
| The Treasure | [62] |
| It Is Well | [67] |
| Whence a Proverb | [73] |
| Mordecai Spektor | |
| An Original Strike | [83] |
| A Gloomy Wedding | [91] |
| Poverty | [107] |
| Sholom-Alechem (Shalom Rabinovitz) | |
| The Clock | [115] |
| Fishel the Teacher | [125] |
| An Easy Fast | [143] |
| The Passover Guest | [153] |
| Gymnasiye | [162] |
| Eliezer David Rosenthal | |
| Sabbath | [183] |
| Yom Kippur | [189] |
| Isaiah Lerner | |
| Bertzi Wasserführer | [211] |
| Ezrielk the Scribe | [219] |
| Yitzchok-Yossel Broitgeber | [236] |
| Judah Steinberg | |
| A Livelihood | [251] |
| At the Matzes | [259] |
| David Frischmann | |
| Three Who Ate | [269] |
| Micha Joseph Berdyczewski | |
| Military Service | 281 |
| Isaiah Berschadski | |
| Forlorn and Forsaken | [295] |
| Tashrak (Israel Joseph Zevin) | |
| The Hole in a Beigel | [309] |
| As the Years Roll On | [312] |
| David Pinski | |
| Reb Shloimeh | [319] |
| S. Libin (Israel Hubewitz) | |
| A Picnic | [357] |
| Manasseh | [366] |
| Yohrzeit for Mother | [371] |
| Slack Times They Sleep | [377] |
| Abraham Raisin | |
| Shut In | [385] |
| The Charitable Loan | [389] |
| The Two Brothers | [397] |
| Lost His Voice | [405] |
| Late | [415] |
| The Kaddish | [421] |
| Avròhom the Orchard-Keeper | [427] |
| Hirsh David Naumberg | |
| The Rav and the Rav's Son | [435] |
| Meyer Blinkin | |
| Women | [449] |
| Löb Schapiro | |
| If It Was a Dream | [481] |
| Shalom Asch | |
| A Simple Story | [493] |
| A Jewish Child | [506] |
| A Scholar's Mother | [514] |
| The Sinner | [529] |
| Isaac Dob Berkowitz | |
| Country Folk | [543] |
| The Last of Them | [566] |
| A Folk Tale | |
| The Clever Rabbi | [581] |
| Glossary and Notes | [589] |
REUBEN ASHER BRAUDES
Born, 1851, in Wilna (Lithuania), White Russia; went to Roumania after the anti-Jewish riots of 1882, and published a Yiddish weekly, Yehudit, in the interest of Zionism; expelled from Roumania; published a Hebrew weekly, Ha-Zeman, in Cracow, in 1891; then co-editor of the Yiddish edition of Die Welt, the official organ of Zionism; Hebrew critic, publicist, and novelist; contributor to Ha-Lebanon (at eighteen), Ha-Shahar, Ha-Boker Or, and other periodicals; chief work, the novel "Religion and Life."