Foreword by Josh Lambert

Introduction by Nora Gold

Hostage

Elie Wiesel
Translated from French by Catherine Temerson

The Guest

Varda Fiszbein
Translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger

And The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight

S. Y. Agnon
Translated from Hebrew by Michael P. Kramer

The First Christmas

Gábor T. Szántó
Translated from Hungarian by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry

Purimspiel

Jasminka Domaš
Translated from Croatian by Iskra Pavlović

Purchase of Goods of Dubious Origin

Augusto Segre
Translated from Italian by Steve Siporin

The Rebbetzin's Sense of Justice

Lili Berger
Translated from Yiddish by Ronnee Jaeger

New York

Peter Sichrovsky
Translated from German by John Howard

Golem

Maciej Płaza
Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Frozen Spring—Jerusalem Returning

Entela Kasi

Translated from Albanian by the author with assistance from Sarah Lawson

Place of Birth

Norman Manea
Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris

Sonata in Auschwitz

Luize Valente
Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt

The Washerwoman’s Daughter

Eliya Karmona
Translated from Judeo-Spanish by Michael Alpert

A Place Nowhere

Birte Kont
Translated from Danish by Nina Sokol

The Researcher

Michel Fais

Translated from Greek by Mina Karavanta

Luck

Irena Dousková

Translated from Czech by David Livingstone

Where Were You When Darkness Fell
Mario Levi

Translated from Turkish by Leyla Tonguç Basmaci

Red Cavalry

Isaac Babel

Translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Notes