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[15] Father.
[16] Of the bridegroom in Shool to the Reading of the Law.
[17] The Friday nearest December 21.
[18] Diminutive of Tate = Father.
[19] No unbaptized Jew may become an official in the courts in Russia.
[20] For the soul of the dead, to wash and dry itself.
[21] A verst is .663 of a mile.
[22] A Lithuanian mile = 5.56 English miles.
[23] A Jew taken from his home as a child, under Nicholas I, estranged from his family and his faith, and made to serve in the army.
[24] Jewish name for the typical Russian.
[25] Addressing them in Polish instead of Russian.
[26] "When you are a hundred and twenty years old"--the ideal age for the Jew, the age reached by Moses.
[27] Get up! Russian.
[28] Three men necessary for a certain form of grace.
[29] Piekalik--built on to the stove.
[30] Little souls fly, little souls fly!
[31] "You also have a soul?" Polish.
[32] Because he was suspected of not keeping the dietary laws.
[33] Our little Talmud student would not be familiar with much of the Prophets' writings beyond what is contained in the prayer-book. The study of the Prophets savored rather of free-thinking.
[34] A tiny bit of wood tied up and thrown away with the nails. The superst.i.tions behind this practice are not confined to the Jews.
[35] Which had been invested with wonder-working powers.
[36] "Fine meal," as in Gen. xviii. 3; used also figuratively.
[37] Head-dress with broad ribbon to hide the hair of a married woman.
[38] A celebrated Hebrew novel by Mapu.
[39] Eve of the Day of Atonement.
[40] Pious offerings dropped into the collecting-box of "Mer Baal-Ness," to be found in every orthodox Jewish house. The money is for the poor Jews in Palestine.
[41] Free meals given to poor students at the tables of different householders.
[42] Instead of bringing him up to the study of the Law.
[43] The man in the moon is sometimes identified with Joshua in Jewish legend.
[44] According to the Talmudical legend.
[45] Little Jew.
[46] Adapted from the twelfth principle of the Jewish faith, relating to the Messiah.
[47] Sabbath dish prepared the day before, and kept in a heated oven overnight.
[48] Bontzye "mum."
[49] Men of great learning in the Law.
[50] By which the law is made applicable to an elderly woman.
[51] Grandsons. A celebrated Rebbe would have "sons" and "grandsons"
among his adherents. The former would remain, the latter would come and go in companies and more or less respectable conveyances.
[52] Owing to the emigration of the younger men to America in the "bad times."
[53] "Chapter of Song," a Midrash, found in some editions of the prayer-book.
[54] "Tore is die beste S'ch.o.r.e." From a Yiddish cradle-song.
[55] Hebrew blessing before eating bread.
[56] According to the Talmudic legend like Moses and other saints.
[57] Ruach, Hebrew for wind and spirit both.
[58] Who stand for colonization in Argentina and Palestine, respectively.
[59] G.o.d.
[60] They have understood that the writer's mission is connected with the matter of Jewish recruits.
[61] Unfit for military service.
[62] "Bride"-grace, girlish charm.
[63] A Hebrew newspaper
