The following sources have been consulted for the biographies: The Jewish Encyclopaedia; Wiener, History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century; Pinnes, Histoire de la Litterature Judeo-Allemande, and the Yiddish version of the same, Die Geschichte vun der juedischer 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 LOeB LEWIN) Earth of Palestine 29 ISAAC LOeB 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 Wasserfuehrer 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 Avrohom the Orchard-Keeper 427 HIRSH DAVID NAUMBERG The Rav and the Rav's Son 435