"Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--page after title page verso.

From OLD LOVE (1979): One night in Brazil -- Yochna and Shmelke -- Two -- Psychic journey -- Elka and Meier -- A party in Miami Beach -- Two weddings and one divorce -- A cage for Satan -- Brother Beetle -- Boy knows the truth -- There are no coincidences -- Not for the Sabbath -- Safe deposit -- Betrayer of Israel -- Tanhum -- Manuscript -- Power of darkness -- Bus. From THE COLLECTED STORIES (1982): A night in the poorhouse -- Escape from civilization -- Vanvild Kava -- Reencounter -- Moon and madness. From THE IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES (1985): Advice -- One day of happiness -- Bond -- Interview -- Divorce -- Strong as death is love -- Why Heisherik was born -- Enemy -- Remnants -- On the way to the poorhouse -- Loshikl -- Pocket remembered -- Secret -- A nest egg for Paradise -- Conference -- Miracles -- Litigants -- A telephone call on Yom Kippur -- Strangers -- Mistake -- Confused -- Image. From GIFTS (1985): Trap -- Smuggler -- Gifts. From THE DEATH OF METHUSELAH AND OTHER STORIES (1988): Jew from Babylon -- House friend -- Burial at sea -- Recluse -- Disguised -- Accuser and the accused -- A peephole in the gate -- Bitter truth -- Impresario -- Logarithms -- Runners to nowhere -- Missing line -- Hotel -- Dazzled -- Sabbath in Gehenna -- Last gaze -- Death of Methuselah. UNCOLLECTED STORIES: Bird -- "My adventures as an idealist" -- Exes -- Between shadows -- Hershele and Hanele, or the power of a dream -- Pity -- Angry man -- Mathematician -- Building project -- Painting -- Morris and Timna -- Two -- Eulogy to a shoelace.