Jewish fiction; Jews -- Fiction; Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915 -- Translations into English; Short stories
[57] Rúach, Hebrew for wind and spirit both.
[58] Who stand for colonization in Argentina and Palestine,
respectively.
[59] God.
[60] They have understood that the writer's mission is connected with
the matter of Jewish recruits.
[61] Unfit for military service.
[62] "Bride"-grace, girlish charm.
[63] A Hebrew newspaper
[64] Followers of the Rebbes of Radzin and Belz, respectively.
[65] To his prayer-scarf. See Num. xv. 38.
[66] Followers of the Rebbes of Radzin and Belz, respectively.
[67] The plaintiff must take action in the place of domicile of the
defendant.
[68] Belz being in Austrian Poland. There were two famous Rebbes of Belz
in the last century; the second died in 1894. It has been asserted that
thirty thousand Jews followed him to his grave.
[69] For having no passports.
[70] Sir, my lord. Polish.
[71] And still Jacob did not become like Laban. A Midrash, a rabbinical
amplification of the Biblical text.
[72] An exclamation corresponding to the Italian _che!_
[73] Not our people!
[74] Commotion.
[75] Nickname for a Jew, diminutive of Jacob.
[76] Anti-Semitism.
[77] Prayer of supplication.
[78] Kith and kin.
[79] A Kabbalistic allusion.
[80] Maimonides.
[81] The curtain hung in front of the Ark.
[82] To their prayer-scarfs.
[83] Opponents might deny them burial in a choice place.
[84] See note p. 61.
[85] Peace be upon you! Hebrew.
[86] Surname.
[87] Special calling-up of a bridegroom to the Reading of the Law.
[88] Up to the time when universal conscription was introduced in Russia
in 1874, every Jewish community, Kohol, had to furnish a given number of
recruits, the Government asking no questions as to how these were
obtained.
[89] Which exempts him from military service.
[90] Who have adopted German = Western ways of life.
[91] Gentile.
[92] Worn beneath the outer garments.
[93] The "Sabbath of the Vision," preceding the Ninth of Ab (fast in
memory of the destruction of the Temple), when the lesson from the
prophets is Isaiah I, beginning, "The Vision of Isaiah." At this period
there is much almsgiving.
[94] According to the Talmudic legend.
[95] The standard code of laws.
[96] "Hear, O Israel, etc." The Chassidîm are not punctilious about
observing the prescribed time limits for the recitation of the Shema.
[97] Pölen = Poland.
[98] "A sach melòches un wenig bròches."
[99] So called from Moses xv. 1, read on the day when--it is not far
from the "New Year for trees"--children place food for birds in the
windows.
[100] Machine for making paper out of rags.
[101] See note p. 32.
[102] Right of a land-owner to keep a distillery--which was frequently
let out to a Jew.
[103] Boarding with the wife's parents.
[104] Macaroni-seller.
[105] The rebukes and threats in Lev. xxvi and Deut. xxviii.
[106] Used when speaking of animals.
[107] "Beyond the Good"--the powers of darkness. We touch here on
Kabbalistic lore relating to the origin of evil.
[108] See note p. 112.
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