Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling Book

	Introduction	17
26
	The Most Precious Thing	27
30
	Challahs in the Ark	31
33
	Elijah and the Poor Man's Wish	34
	Merit of the Sabbath	38
43
	The Sound of Work	44
	The Talking Mule	45
48
	Isaac's Bar Mitzvah	49
59
	A Tale of Reb Nakhum Chernobler and a Tikkun	60
65
	The Teller of Tales	66
	Levi Yitchak Burns the Evidence	68
71
	The Founding Fathers	72
	A Chelm Medley	73
75
	The Kugel	77
83
	The Golem Haunts the Cemetery in Prague	86
90
	The Day My Great-Grandmother Died	91
95
	The Czar's Army	95
	The Czarina's Dress	97
98
	Tants! Tants! Yiddish Music in the Old Country	99
104
	Think for Yourself	104
105
	My Grandmother's Family Tales	106
112
	Leaving for America	114
	A Real American Girl	116
	My First Thanksgiving	120
121
	From Immigrant to Ethnic in a Family's Tales	122
133
	Grandmother Elke: Next Year in Jerusalem	134
153
	The Refusenik	153
161
	The Tax Man in the Tailor Shop	163
	Crucifixion	165
168
	"The Strike of the Schnorrers" Revisited	172
174
	Pazamentry	175
176
	Papa's Sukkah	177
	Ike the Pike	178
182
	A Jew Who Don't Speak Yiddish: Ashkenazi/Sephardic Cultural Differences	182
186
	What Mr. Blatt Can't Eat	186
190
	The Kokhaleyn	190
	The Tumler	194
196
	Plotting to Kill Harry	198
202
	The Lonesome Ship	203
206
	Water and Wine	206
211
	Even the Transgressors in Israel	212
	Circumcision	215
	Hovering above the Pit	218
220
	In Your Hands	221
222
	The Wand	222
225
	Only the Small Survive	225
	Typhus	226
	Pretending to Work	227
	The Cigarette	228
	New Barracks	229
	Liberation	231
	A Bowl of Soup	234
234
	What My Mother Never Told Me: Reminiscences of a Child of a Holocaust Survivor	235
242
	The Shoebox	243
245
	Going Home to Nowhere	245
250
	The Health Club	251
255
	Jewish Laughter, God's Sense of Humor	255
274
	Ezekiel's Wheel	275
277
	A Penchant for Parable	277
289
	The Healing of Power of Jewish Stories	290
	Source Notes	297