Part I: Waiting for Rabbi Harvey
1. A Visit to Centro Histórico
Part II: Essays
2. Singer's Typewriter and Mine
3. Vilde khaye!
4. Doctor Esperanto
5. Letter from Caracas
6. Harry Houdini
7. Singer: A Purim Parody
8. Introduction to Moacyr Scliar's The Centaur in the Garden
9. O <SC>r*o*s*t*e*n</SC>! My <SC>r*o*s*t*e*n</SC>!
10. Juan Gelman's dibaxu
11. I Found It at the Movies
12. Translating Tevye
13. Nora's Will
14. Thinking Aloud: The Education of Maurice Samuel
15. Mario Vargas Llosa: Judeophile
16. American Jews: Response to Moment
17. The Hate of Norberto Ceresole
18. Photographing Singer
19. Is There a God?
20. Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner without a Name
21. Borges and Israel: Three Poems
22. Yiddish South of the Border
23. Homero Aridjis: Lessons of 1492
24. Rereading Lionel Trilling: In the American Grain
25. Mauricio Rosencof: The Letters that Never Came
26. A Personal History of Jewish Reading
27. Esther Kreitman: The Other Singer
28. Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer
29. Philip Roth: The Plagiarist
30. Bruno Schulz on Stage
31. Sephardic Literature: Unity and Dispersion
Part III: The Jewish Identity Project
32. What Melting Pot? Multiculturalism and American Jews: Oy, Are We a Pluribus?
Part IV: Conversations
33. The Buenos Aires Affair, with Nathan Englander
34. Humor and Terror, with Marcelo Birmajer
35. Impostors <AP>R Us, with Robin Dizard
36. Nostalgia and Recognition, with Morris Dickstein
37. A Fine Range of Motion, with Allegra Goodman
Part V: God's Translators
38. Reflections on the King James Bible, with Verónica Albin
Part VI: Storytelling as Midrash
39. People of the Picture Book
Source Acknowledgments
