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Tables of Contents for Because God Loves Stories
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
17
8
I. ANCIENT TIMES IN CONTEMPORARY TALES
25
32
Nina Jaffe
26
4
The Most Precious Thing
27
3
Syd Lieberman
30
3
Challahs in the Ark
31
2
Cherie Karo Schwartz
33
10
Elijah and the Poor Man's Wish
34
4
Merit of the Sabbath
38
5
Joseph Elias
43
5
The Sound of Work
44
1
The Talking Mule
45
3
Rabbi Edward Schecter
48
9
Isaac's Bar Mitzvah
49
8
II. THE SHTETL
57
54
A. The Shetetl in Folktale
59
31
Eve Penner Ilsen
59
6
A Tale of Reb Nakhum Chernobler and a Tikkun
60
5
Rabbi Edward Schecter
65
6
The Teller of Tales
66
2
Levi Yitchak Burns the Evidence
68
3
Syd Lieberman, Steve Sanfield
71
4
The Founding Fathers
72
1
A Chelm Medley
73
2
Michael Wex
75
8
The Kugel
77
6
Corey Fisher
83
7
The Golem Haunts the Cemetery in Prague
86
4
B. The Shtetl in Family Stories
90
21
Rita Fecher
90
5
The Day My Great-Grandmother Died
91
4
Peninnah Schram
95
3
The Czar's Army
95
2
The Czarina's Dress
97
1
Henry Sapoznik
98
6
Tants! Tants! Yiddish Music in the Old Country
99
5
Matilda Friedman
104
1
Think for Yourself
104
1
Marc Kaminsky
105
6
My Grandmother's Family Tales
106
5
III. THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
111
46
Roslyn Bresnick-Perry
112
9
Leaving for America
114
2
A Real American Girl
116
4
My First Thanksgiving
120
1
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
121
12
From Immigrant to Ethnic in a Family's Tales
122
11
Ruth Rubin
133
20
Grandmother Elke: Next Year in Jerusalem
134
19
Rosa Kuinova
153
4
The Refusenik
153
4
IV. THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND BEYOND
157
52
A. Tenement Life
161
25
Sam Levenson
161
7
The Tax man in the Tailor Shop
163
2
Crucifixion
165
3
Gus Tyler
168
6
"The Strike of the Schnorrers" Revisted
172
2
Jack Tepper
174
2
Pezamentry
175
1
Shirlee Kresh Hecker
176
6
Papa's Sukkah
177
1
Ike the Pike
178
4
Hank Halio
182
4
A Jew Who Don't Speak Yiddish: Ashkenazi/Sephardic Cultural Differences
182
4
B. The American South
186
4
Solomon Blatt
186
4
What Mr. Blatt Can't Eat
186
4
C. The Catskills
190
6
Joey Adams
190
6
The Kokhaleyn
190
4
The Tumler
194
2
D. Yiddish Theater
196
10
Baruch Lumet
196
6
Plotting to Kill Harry
198
4
Zypora Spaisman
202
4
The Lonesome Ship
203
3
E. Jewish Summer Camps
206
3
Rabbi David Holtz
206
3
Water and Wine
206
3
V. THE HOLOCAUST
209
40
A. Folk and Hasidic Tales
211
14
Rabbi Israel Spira
211
9
Even the Transgressors in Israel
212
3
Circumcision
215
3
Hovering above the Pit
218
2
Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin
220
2
In Your Hands
221
1
Sam Levenson
222
3
The Wand
222
3
B. Bitter Memories
225
24
Melvin Katz
225
9
Only the Small Survive
225
1
Typhus
226
1
Pretending to Work
227
1
The Cigarette
228
1
New Barracks
229
2
Liberation
231
3
A Bowl of Soup
234
1
Lisa Lipkin
234
1
What My Mother Never Told Me: Reminiscences of a Child of a Holocaust Survivor
235
7
Barbara Myerhoff
242
3
The Scoebox
243
2
Roslyn Bresnick-Perry
245
4
Going home to Nowhere
245
4
VI. HUMOR IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE
249
24
Moshe Waldoks
250
5
The Health Club
251
4
Steve Zeitlin
255
18
Jewish Laughter, God's Sense of Humor
255
18
VII. MEANINGS AND REFLECTIONS
273
Shelley Brenner
274
3
Ezekiel's Wheel
275
2
Steve Zeitlin
277
12
A Penchant for Parable
277
12
Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard
289
The healing Power of Jewish Stories
290
7
Source Notes
297