To the Honorable Director General and Council of New Netherlands / from A sermon preached at the synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island / from Diary / Letter from "a Jew broker" / A prayer for the medina / Letters to her parents / An address in the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons of North Carolina / from Letters of Rebecca Gratz. To Benjamin Gratz (February 27, 1825) ; To Maria Gist Gratz (June 29, 1834) ; To Maria Gist Gratz (August 27, 1840) ; To Ann Boswell Gratz (August 23, 1861) ; To Ann Boswell Gratz (September 12, 1861) ; To Ann Boswell Gratz (March 11, 1863) ; To Benjamin Gratz (April 15, 1863) / The fortress of Sorrento / Miriam ; Hymn / from Discourses on the Jewish religion. Discourse XXIV : the dangers and defenses of Judaism / The Fourth of July, 1858 / Judith ; Myself ; Hear, o Israel! / from The fatal secret! or, Plots and counterplots : a novel of the sixteenth century. Chapter XLVI : the escape / Miriam / In the Jewish synagogue at Newport ; 1492 ; The new Ezekiel ; Echoes ; The new colossus ; Venus of the Louvre

A ghetto wedding / Corner of pain and anguish ; My little son ; Walt Whitman (America's great poet) / To the muse ; My testament / Amid the Colorado mountains ; Rachel's tomb ; Lynching ; Woolworth Building ; Yang-Ze-Fu / Equality of the sexes / Unchanged / White chalah / Poets ; Home from praying ; The first cigarette / from God of vengeance. Act one / from The chosen people. Chapter VI : the brotherhood of man / The lie / from Democracy versus the melting-pot. Part two / Hush ; I am-- They-- ; A plum ; Strangers ; Odors ; To the Gentile poet ; Inscribed on a tombstone / from Kentucky. Blue grass ; Litvaks ; Again Litvaks / The man who slept through the end of the world / Children of loneliness / Memento mori / Memento mori / Memento mori (Yiddish and transliteration) ; in the golden land ; Isaac Leybush Peretz ; Zlochov, my home ; My only son / Brothers / I am drowning ; You plowed my fertile soil ; My mother ; The circus lady ; Adam ; You didn't sow a child in me-- ; I have not yet seen you ; Sonya's room / I was once a boy / I was once a boy (Yiddish and transliteration) ; Mother Earth ; Forgotten gods ; My ancestors speak ; A city by the sea ; Dear monsters ; Epitaph / from Fanny herself. Chapter three / Clouds behind the forest ; Sanatorium ; How did he get here? (Spinoza cycle, no. 2) ; Song of the yellow patch ; To America ; Sacrifice / The shorn head ; Sonnet ; A winter echo ; Dusks / The Yankee Talmud. from The tractate "America" / from The tractate "The ways of the new land" / A bintl briv (A bundle of letters). From a "Greenhorn" ; Anti-Semitism on the job ; To study or to work? ; Sexual harassment in the workplace ; Socialist freethinking and Jewish tradition ; White slavery ; From a union scab ; Staying in school ; Fighting for the Kaiser ; Returning to Russia ; From a rape victim.

We were brothers before you were / The scrolls / A scattering of contemporary and perennial Jewish jokes.

from The making of Americans : being a history of a family's progress. from Chapter V : the Dehnings and the Herslands / from Up stream : an American chronicle. from Chapter V : the American discovers exile / Fabius Lind's days ; Shlomo Molkho sings on the eve of his burning ; The God of Israel ; New York / from Jews without money. Fifty cents a night / Building boom ; Russia : anno 1905 ; from A short history of Israel, notes and glosses. XI ; Te deum ; from Early history of a writer. 15 ; The invitation read : not to mourn / 1919 ; Autobiography ; We the wordproletariat ; Good night, world ; Without Jews ; Resistance in the ghetto ; The joy of the Yiddish word / from The confessions of Edward Dahlberg. from Chapter IX : and so-- my mother-- / Dirge ; Beware ; Afternoon of a pawnbroker / from A cool million. International Jewish bankers and Bolsheviks / Waiting for Santy : a Christmas playlet ; Nathanael West : a portrait / from Poem beginning "the". Fifth movement : autobiography ; from A-8. Arrived mostly with bedding in a sheet ; from A-12. In Hebrew "in the beginning" / Earth ; On the docks ; Lynching / from Call it sleep. from Book I : the cellar / Missis Flinders / Father and son ; Foreign affairs ; Quinnapoxet / from The old bunch. What's in a name ; from Comparative religions / Awake and sing! / from The education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and Shakespeare / A Hollywood diary / Epitaph ; Elegia / The rabbi's daughter / A memorial synagogue / Sigmund Freud at the age of eighty-two ; Of immigration ; New York in a Jewish mood / Boy with his hair cut short ; More of a corpse than a woman ; Paper anniversary ; from Letter to the front. 7 : to be a Jew in the twentieth century / In dreams begin responsibilities ; The ballet of the fifth year ; The heavy bear who goes with me ; Summer knowledge / The lament of Madame Rechevsky / My grandmother ; Lord, I have seen too much ; Sunday : New Guinea ; Israel ; The alphabet / Monte Sant' Angelo / The situation of the Jewish writer

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from Show boat. Ol' Man River / God bless America / from Pal Joey. Bewitched / Adelaide's lament / from West Side story. America / from Fiddler on the roof. If I were a rich man

from My name is Asher Lev / Trying to talk with a man ; Yom Kippur 1984 ; from Sources. VII ; from Eastern war time. 10 / from A weave of women. Chapter 1 : the birth / When you're excused, you're excused / from The book of J. Introduction / Heist / Dibbukim (Dibbiks) ; Cokboy. Part one / Poland of death (IV) / The lost girl / Maggid ; The ram's horn sounding / Memory candle / The night game ; Visions of Daniel ; Avenue / The eighth day / Bashert. These words are dedicated to those who died ; These words are dedicated to those who survived / Fradel Schtok / Lazar Malkin enters heaven / from MAUS II, a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began / from Sentences my father used. Casts across otherwise unavailable fields / The village idiot ; Idea of the holy ; Oscar Ginsburg / from Survivors and pieces of glass / The library of Moloch / Ponar ; Brief encounter with a hero, name unknown ; Ch'vil schreibn a poem auf Yiddish / The four questions

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