Introduction by Irving Howe

Gimpel the Fool
The Gentleman from Cracow
The Wife Killer
The Mirror
The Little Shoemakers
The Old Man
The Unseen
The Spinoza of Market Street
The Black Wedding
A Tale of Two Liars
The Beggar Said So
The Man Who Came Back
In the Poorhouse
Taibele and Her Demon
Blood
Esther Kreindel the Second
The Fast
The Last Demon
Alone
Three Tales
Zeidlus the Pope
I Place My Reliance on No Man
Short Friday