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| Let Us Sing Simply | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Itzik's Midrash | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sacrifice of Itzik | |
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| I Praise Thee Lord | |
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| Eve and the Apple Tree | |
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| Eve Brings Adam the Apple | |
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| Abraham Scolds Lot | |
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| Lot's Daughters | |
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| Abraham and Sarah | |
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| Hagar's Last Night in Abraham's House | |
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| Hagar Leaves Abraham's House | |
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| Hagar on Her Journey | |
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| Abraham Takes Itzik to the Sacrifice | |
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| The Patriarch Abraham Gets a Letter | |
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| Rachel Goes to the Well for Water | |
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| The Patriarch Jacob Meets Rachel | |
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| Leah Brings Mandrakes from the Field | |
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| Jacob Teaches the Story of Joseph to His Sons | |
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| Bathsheba | |
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| King David and Abishag | |
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| Abishag Writes a Letter Home | |
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| Cain and Abel | |
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| King David | |
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| Songs of the Megillah | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Invocation | |
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| The Song of the Runner | |
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| How the Blessed Mordecai Found Favor in the Eyes of the King | |
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| Queen Vashti | |
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| The King's Banquet | |
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| Vashti's Song of Grief | |
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| Queen Vashti Being Led to Execution | |
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| Esther Getting Ready for the King | |
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| Mordecai Leaving Esther's Wedding | |
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| Fastrigosso's Elegy | |
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| Queen Esther Can't Sleep | |
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| Fastrigosso Dreaming | |
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| The Blessed Mordecai, the Mediator | |
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| The Queen Comes to the King | |
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| Fastrigosso Has the Birds Carry a Greeting to Esther | |
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| Haman Telephones Vayzosse, the Editor, at His Office | |
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| Fonfosso, the Master Tailor, Delivers a Eulogy on Fastrigosso | |
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| The King Ahasuerus After the Assassination Attempt | |
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| Mordecai Comes to Queen Esther | |
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| Wicked Haman Can't Sleep | |
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| Wicked Haman in the King's Courtyard | |
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| Fonfosso and His Apprentices Sew a Uniform for Haman | |
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| Pious Mordecai Waits for Satan | |
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| The Master Tailor, Fonfosso, Prepares to Fast | |
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| Queen Esther, Fasting | |
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| Haman Gets Ready for the Masked Ball | |
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| The King Is Angry | |
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| Haman Being Taken to the Gallows | |
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| The Master Tailor, Fonfosso, Presides over a Banquet | |
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| Fastrigosso's Mother Lights a Memorial Candle | |
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| Ballads | |
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| The Ballad of the White Glow | |
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| The Ballad of the Crucified and the Verminous Man | |
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| Old-Fashioned Ballad | |
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| Hospital Ballad | |
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| The Ballad of the Man Riding to the Fair | |
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| Ballad | |
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| The Ballad of the Blue Pitchers | |
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| The Ballad of the Necklace of Stars | |
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| Erotic Ballad | |
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| The Ballad of the Man Who Went from Gray to Blue | |
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| Occasional Poems | |
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| In the Train | |
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| Baal Shem | |
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| Satan's Prayer | |
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| Evening | |
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| Saint Besht | |
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| Like a Murderer | |
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| With Silent Steps | |
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| November | |
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| At the Kolomey Station | |
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| Twilight | |
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| The Words of the Journeyman Tailor Notte Manger to the Poet | |
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| There Is a Tree That Stands | |
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| Rabenu Tam | |
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| Reb Levi Yitskhok | |
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| Since Yesterday | |
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| For Years I Wallowed | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Prose | |
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| Autobiographical Episodes | |
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| Childhood Years in Kolomey | |
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| At Grandmother Taube's in Stopchet | |
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| A Portrait of a Tailor's Workshop | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Excerpts from The Book of Paradise | |
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| The Tales of Hershel Summerwind | |
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| The Story of the Nobleman's Mustaches | |
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| The Rabbi of Chelm: May His Memory Be Blessed | |
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| Essays | |
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| First Letter to X. Y. | |
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| The Ballad: The Vision of Blood | |
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| Sholem Aleichem, the One and Only | |
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| Folklore and Literature | |
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| Notes | |