Imagining Lives
Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers
Contents
Acknowledgments.....................................................xi
Note on Transliteration.............................................xiii
Introduction........................................................3
Part I. The Classical Trio
1 Setting the Stage................................................25
2 A Whistle of Defiance............................................48
Part II. In America
3 The Trials of a Yiddish Writer...................................79
4 An American Yiddish Poet Visits Poland, 1934.....................98
Part III. After the Holocaust
5 Of a World That Is No More.......................................127
Conclusion..........................................................159
Chronology..........................................................167
Glossary............................................................185
Notes...............................................................189
Bibliography........................................................221
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