- 1Preface to the Third Edition
- 2Chapter I — The Bread of Affliction
- 3Chapter II — The Sweater
- 4Chapter III — Malka
- 5Chapter IV — The Redemption of the Son and the Daughter
- 6Chapter V — The Pauper Alien
- 7Chapter VI — “Reb” Shemuel
- 8Chapter VII — The Neo-Hebrew Poet
- 9Chapter VIII — Esther and Her Children
- 10Chapter IX — Dutch Debby
- 11Chapter X — A Silent Family
- 12Chapter XI — The Purim Ball
- 13Chapter XII — The Sons of the Covenant
- 14Chapter XIII — Sugarman’s Bar-Mitzvah Party
- 15Chapter XIV — The Hope of the Family
- 16Chapter XV — The Holy Land League
- 17Chapter XVI — The Courtship of Shosshi Shmendrik
- 18Chapter XVII — The Hyams’s Honeymoon
- 19Chapter XVIII — The Hebrew’s Friday Night
- 20Chapter XIX — With the Strikers
- 21Chapter XX — The Hope Extinct
- 22Chapter XXI — The Jargon Players
- 23Chapter XXII — “For Auld Lang Syne, My Dear”
- 24Chapter XXIII — The Dead Monkey
- 25Chapter XXIV — The Shadow of Religion
- 26Chapter XXV — Seder Night
- 27Book II — The Grandchildren of the Ghetto
- 28Chapter II — Raphael Leon
- 29Chapter III — “The Flag of Judah”
- 30Chapter IV — The Troubles of an Editor
- 31Chapter V — A Woman’s Growth
- 32Chapter VI — Comedy or Tragedy?
- 33Chapter VII — What the Years Brought
- 34Chapter VIII — The Ends of a Generation
- 35Chapter IX — The Flag Flutters
- 36Chapter X — Esther Defies the Universe
- 37Chapter XI — Going Home
- 38Chapter XII — A Sheaf of Sequels
- 39Chapter XIII — The Dead Monkey Again
- 40Chapter XIV — Sidney Settles Down
- 41Chapter XV — From Soul to Soul
- 42Chapter XVI — Love’s Temptation
- 43Chapter XVII — The Prodigal Son
- 44Chapter XVIII — Hopes and Dreams
- 45Glossary
Children of the Ghetto
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