Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Foreword -- STORIES -- Kola Road -- The Immortal Orange -- It Had To Be -- The Witness -- From My Estates -- Muni The Bird-Seller -- The Bird -- The Squire's Moustaches -- Black Oak -- ESSAYS -- Thinking With Ivre-Teitch -- Jeivishness and Yiddish -- Isaac Katznelson -- Jerusalem and Yiddish Literature -- Rambam or Maimonides -- Sanctuaries in Ruin -- Triumphal March -- Why Not Canonise a Second Book of Books? -- The Argument Around Shy lock -- The Poetry of Our Holy Days -- Shigayon Chagall -- The Old Tree in Vence -- PLAYS -- A String Of Pearls -- Small Heroes -- Shylock Laughs -- Scene Seven From "The Hotzmach Play" -- POEMS -- I Was Not in Treblinka -- I Should Have Died with You -- Edgar Allan Poe's Raven -- Song About Myself -- On Your Earth, Jerusalem -- A Dream After Maidanek -- Rechov Zeitlin in Tel Aviv -- One Summer -- The Last Words of Don Henriquez -- To the Jewish People -- Homer and Isaiah -- Sutzkever -- Jewish Street -- Like Groping Fingers -- A Cartload of Shoes -- Peretz Markish -- From Babylon -- The Glory of Sinai -- The Dead Do Not Praise God -- Holy Name -- Souls of Jewish Towns -- Back to the Ghetto -- The End -- Shlomo Jelichovski -- Partisan Song -- In the Ghetto -- God of Mercy -- Boots -- East -- Arthur Ziegelboim -- Peretz and Bontche Shiveig in the Warsaw Ghetto -- Our Small Group -- My Yiddish -- My Son -- Beauty -- A Jew Stands at the Gates of Tears -- They -- Abraham Liesin and I -- Seven Brothers -- The Song of Love -- My Grandmother -- My Grandfather -- Grandfather Dies -- Break of Day -- I Am a Pitcher -- The Lovers of Israel in the Death Camp Belshitz -- The Ruins of Poland -- Epitaph -- A Song of the Dean of St. Patrick Dr. Jonathan Swift and the Yiddish Rhymster Itzik Manger -- Bialik and Mendele -- Yiddish -- Song on the Seas to My Mother-Tongue -- A Song About Songs of Today and Timeless Songs -- Three Old-Time Friends -- Poem About the Soviet Yiddish Writers -- A Jew in Stockholm -- Footsteps -- The Poet's Death -- Perhaps -- Mikhoels -- At Night -- My Heart-Wrung Cry -- A Town of Starving Jews -- Night -- Where Shall I Flee? -- Jew -- When Will Day Come? -- I Am His Wife -- I Am a Jew -- After Treblinka -- Winston Churchill -- The Levies' Song of Praise -- Biographical Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Backmatter