Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; The Bridegroom Tree; Resting Place; Bread; Alone; The Payback; A Seder in the Taiga; On the Landing; Mona Bubbe; By the Light of the Moon; The Irony of Fate; At the Western Wall; The Cap; Ingathering of Exiles; Retirees; Erika; The Second Time Around; About Yenta Mash; Translator's Note