Jewish fiction; Jews -- Fiction; Peretz, Isaac Leib, 1851 or 1852-1915 -- Translations into English; Short stories
[109] Order of service.
[110] Bread made with saffron.
[111] Followers of the Kotzk and Belz Rebbes, respectively.
[112] The service read in the home on the first (and the second)
Passover eve.
[113] Passover cakes soaked in broth or other liquid.
[114] Rabbinical amplification of the Biblical text.
[115] This is an allegory referring to certain aspects of Zionism.
[116] "Happy, etc.," Ps. lxxxiv. 5, three times dally in the prayers.
[117] When the weeping female relatives of the sick force their way
through the male congregation to the Ark, throw it open, and bedew the
scrolls with their tears.
[118] Confirmed.
[119] A man of influence. Hebrew.
[120] The Rebbe's.
[121] Rich man's wife. Hebrew.
[122] Hannah my crown.
[123] Chazan, the reader or reciter of the prayers in the synagogue
[124] Reciting of prescribed prayers.
[125] Lest the meat and milk should not be ritually permitted.
[126] Our brothers, the children of Israel.
[127] Kind of cloak.
[128] Russian term of contempt, in contradistinction to _Yevrèi_ =
Hebrew.
[129] This was an important article of trade, required for the peasants'
carts, etc.
[130] Wedding jester and improvisatore.
[131] Croup.
[132] He visited, I visited. Hebrew.
[133] A kind of cake.
[134] Gymnasium, in Russia as in Germany, is a college.
[135] Idol. Hebrew.
[136] As of those religious precepts which it is not possible to carry
out literally.
[137] Qualification for eternal bliss.
[138] A suburb of Warsaw.
[139] Russian officials.
[140] As beseemed an orthodox, married Jewess.
[141] Allusion to the ceremony performed on the eve of the Day of
Atonement, when a cock or hen is twirled round the head, and a prayer is
read.
[142] The seventh day of Tabernacles.
[143] The eighth day of Tabernacles.
[144] To the teaching of the Chassidîm.
[145] "The great Rabbi Loeb" who lived in the sixteenth century, and who
became the central figure of many a legend.
[146] No Gentile to be hired for that purpose.
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