Copyright 1953, 1954 by The Viking Press, Inc.

Published in October 1954

Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada
By The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited

The right to reprint the English versions of the Yid-
dish stories published in this book is controlled by
the Viking Press, from whom permission to reprint
must be obtained, except in the following cases:
"Hodel" and "A Page from the Song of Songs" from
The Old Country by Sholom Aleichem, translated by
Julius and Frances Butwin, copyright 1946 by Crown
Publishers, Inc.; "Sand" and "Repentance" from The
River Breaks Up by I. J. Singer, translated by Maurice
Samuel, copyright 1938 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.;
"Sanctification of the Name" from Children of Abra-
ham by Sholem Asch, translated by Maurice Samuel,
copyright 1942 by Sholem Asch, published by G. P.
Putnam's Sons; proverbs from Yiddish Proverbs edited
by Hanan J. Ayalti, translated by Isidore Goldstick,
copyright 1949 by Schocken Books, Inc. Acknowl-
edgment is made to the publishers named for the
right to include these selections.

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