s, "Gymnasiye" (we refer to the originals), is
perhaps the saddest, anyhow in point of actuality, seeing that the
Russian Government is planning to make education impossible of
attainment by more and more of the Jewish youth--children given into its
keeping as surely as any others, and for the crushing of whose lives it
will have to answer.

Well, we have done our best. Among these tales are favorites of ours
which we have not so much as mentioned by name, thus leaving the gentle
reader at liberty to make his own.

H. F.

LONDON, MARCH, 1911

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Jewish Publication Society of America desires to acknowledge the
valuable aid which Mr. A. S. Freidus, of the Department of Jewish
Literature, in the New York Public Library, extended to it in compiling
the biographical data relating to the authors whose stories appear in
English garb in the present volume. Some of the authors that are living
in America courteously furnished the Society with the data referring to
their own biographies.

The following sources have been consulted for the biographies: The
Jewish Encyclopaedia; Wiener, History of Yiddish Literature in the
Nineteenth Century; Pinnes, Histoire de la Litterature Judeo-Allemande,
and the Yiddish version of the same, Die Geschichte vun der juedischer
Literatur; Baal-Mahashabot, Geklibene Schriften; Sefer Zikkaron
le-Sofere Yisrael ha-hayyim ittanu ka-Yom; Eisenstadt, Hakme Yisrael
be-Amerika; the memoirs preceding the collected works of some of the
authors; and scattered articles in European and American Yiddish
periodicals.

CONTENTS

PREFACE 5

ACKNOWLEDGMENT 8

REUBEN ASHER BRAUBES
The Misfortune 13

JEHALEL (JUDAH LOeB LEWIN)
Earth of Palestine 29

ISAAC LOeB PEREZ
A Woman's Wrath 55
The Treasure 62
It Is Well 67
Whence a Proverb 73

MORDECAI SPEKTOR
An Original Strike 83
A Gloomy Wedding 91
Poverty 107

SHOLOM-ALECHEM (SHALOM RABINOVITZ)
The Clock 115
Fishel the Teacher 125
An Easy Fast 143
The Passover Guest