- 1Preface
- 2I. “The Book of Delight”… — VIII — A Handful of Curiosities
- 3“The Book of Delight”
- 4The Giant Guest
- 5The Fox and the Leopard
- 6The Fox and the Lion
- 7The Silversmith Who Followed His Wife’s Counsel
- 8The Woodcutter and the Woman
- 9Man’s Love and Woman’s
- 10In Dispraise of Woman
- 11The Widow and Her Husband’s Corpse
- 12The Leopard’s Fate
- 13The Journey Begun by Joseph and Enan
- 14The Clever Girl and the King’s Dream
- 15The Night’s Rest
- 16The Dishonest Singer and the Wedding Robes
- 17The Nobleman and the Necklace
- 18The Story of Tobit
- 19The Paralytics Touchstone of Virtue
- 20Table Talk
- 21The City of Enan
- 22The Princess and the Rose
- 23Question and Answer
- 24Enan Reveals Himself
- 25Enan’s Friend and His Daughter
- 26The Washerwoman Who Did the Devil’s Work
- 27Joseph Returns Home to Barcelona
- 28A Visit to Hebron
- 29The Solace of Books
- 30Medieval Wayfaring
- 31The Fox’s Heart
- 32“Marriages Are Made in Heaven”
- 33Hebrew Love Songs
- 34Marriage Song
- 35Ophrah
- 36To Ophrah
- 37A Handful of Curiosities
- 38II — How Milton Pronounced Hebrew
- 39III — The Cambridge Platonists
- 40IV — The Anglo-Jewish Yiddish Literary Society
- 41V — The Mystics and Saints of India
- 42VI — Lost Purim Joys
- 43VII — Jews and Letters
- 44VIII — The Shape of Matzoth
- 45A Visit to Hebron
- 46Medieval Wayfaring
- 47“Marriages Are Made in Heaven”
- 48Hebrew Love Songs
- 49George Eliot and Solomon Maimon
- 50How Milton Pronounced Hebrew
- 51The Cambridge Platonists
- 52The Anglo-Jewish Yiddish Literary Society
- 53The Mystics and Saints of India
- 54Lost Purim Joys
- 55Jews and Letters
- 56The Shape of Matzoth
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
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