Chapter II: Preface: vii

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. THE JUDEO-GERMAN LANGUAGE 12

III. FOLKLORE 25

IV. THE FOLKSONG 53

V. PRINTED POPULAR POETRY 72

VI. OTHER ASPECTS OF POETRY BEFORE THE EIGHTIES 95

VII. POETRY SINCE THE EIGHTIES IN RUSSIA 105

VIII. POETRY SINCE THE EIGHTIES IN AMERICA 118

IX. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1817-1863 131

X. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1863-1881: ABRAMOWITSCH 148

XI. PROSE WRITERS FROM 1863-1881: LINETZKI, DICK 161

XII. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: SPEKTOR 177

XIII. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: RABINOWITSCH, PEREZ 194

XIV. PROSE WRITERS SINCE 1881: IN AMERICA 216

XV. THE JEWISCH THEATRE 231

XVI. OTHER ASPECTS OF LITERATURE 244

CHRESTOMATHY

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I. SSEEFER KOHELES. ECCLESIASTES. M. M. Lefin 258

II. DIE MALPE. THE MONKEY. S. Ettinger 260

III. DAIGES NĀCH DEM TŌDT. WORRY AFTER DEATH. S. Ettinger 260

IV. DER ELENDER SUCHT DIE RUHE. THE FORLORN MAN LOOKING FOR REST. B. W. Ehrenkranz-Zbarżer 261

V. DIWREE CHOCHMO. WORDS OF WISDOM. E. Z. Zweifel 264

VI. DIE STIEFMUTTER. THE STEPMOTHER. M. Gordon 264

VII. DIE MUME SOSJE. AUNT SOSIE. A. Goldfaden 268

VIII. SEMER LE-SSIMCHAS TŌRE. SONG OF THE REJOICING OF THE LAW. J. L. Gordon 272

IX. DIE KLATSCHE. THE DOBBIN. S. J. Abramowitsch 276

X. TUNEJADEWKE. PARASITEVILLE. S. J. Abramowitsch 284

XI. A HARTER BISSEN. A TOUGH MORSEL. D. Frischmann 294

XII. STEMPENJU'S FIEDELE. STEMPENJU'S VIOLIN. S. Rabinowitsch 300

XIII. DER TALMUD. THE TALMUD. S. Frug 306

XIV. DĀS JÜDISCHE KIND. THE JEWISH CHILD. S. Frug 308

XV. DER ADELIGER KĀTER. THE NOBLE TOM-CAT. M. Winchevsky 312

XVI. JONKIPER. THE ATONEMENT DAY. J. Dienesohn 314

XVII. AUF'N BUSEN VUN JAM. ON THE BOSOM OF THE OCEAN. M. Rosenfeld 324

XVIII. BONZJE SCHWEIG. BONTSIE SILENT. J. L. Perez 332

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I. APPENDIX. BIBLIOGRAPHY 355

II. APPENDIX. PSEUDONYMS 383

INDEX 385

THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY