The World of Shalom Aleichem (1943)

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"This book is a sort of pilgrimage among the cities and inhabitants of a world which only yesterday--as history goes--harboured the grandfathers and grandmothers of some millions of American citizens. . . . The world of Sholom Aleichem is mostly--not wholly --the internal world of Russian Jewry forty, fifty, sixty, and seventy years ago. It is--again mostly--the world of the Jewish Pale of Settlement, with special emphasis on a section south and west and east of Kiev. . . ." I. Of Certain Grandfathers. II. Man in a Forest. III. Tevyeh the Dairyman. IV. The Townlet of the Tiny Folk. V. The Eternal House. VI. Love of Life. VII. Faith. VIII. One Man to be Envied. IX. Sabbaths and Festivals. X. From Passover to Passover. XI. Kasrielevky on a Binge. XII. A Tale of Two Cities. XIII. The Judgments of Reb Yozifel. XIV. A Seat by the Eastern Wall. XV. Kasrielevky on Kasrielevky. XVI. Old and New Kasrielevky. XVII. The Reconciliation. XVIII. A Special Kind of Anti-Semite. XIX. Kasrielevky in Dissolution. XX. The Sons-in-Law of Tevyeh. XXI. The Humour of Kasrielevky. XXII. The Language of Kasrielevky. XXIII. Kasrielevky Billingsgate. XXIV. The Superstitions of Kasrielevky. XXV. Rabbis and Rabbis. XXVI. The Two Extremes. XXVII. The Open World. XXVIII. Fringe Types. XXIX. The Children's World. XXX. The Cheder. XXXI Aurora Americana. XXXII. Death in Exile.