• Foreword to the Updated Edition
• Acknowledgments
• Acknowledgments to the Updated Edition
• Author’s Note
• Introduction: A Brivele der Mamen
• Wandering Stars
• Romance in the Ghetto
• “The Face of the Earth Will Change”
• Nineteen-Nineteen
• Out of Galicia
• Miracles on the Vistula
• Yiddish Modernism and Jewish Luck
• The Prince of Second Avenue
• Making It in America
• Once Upon a Time in the Ukraine
• The Polish Forest
• The Theater of the Future
• Jews of Steel
• The Faryidisht Film
• Between Rusland and Daytshland
• Shund
• “We’re on Our Way”
• The Greening of Yiddish Film
• The Cantor’s Sons
• On the Edge of the Abyss
• Without a Home
• Phantom Europe
• Married to America
• The Living Remnant
• A Post-Yiddish Cinema
• Backward into the Real Past, Forward into Endless Time
• Appendixes: Joseph Burstyn’s Documentaries
• Partial Yiddish Talkies
• Recycled Yiddish Films
• Glossary
• Notes on Sources
• Selected Bibliography
• Photograph Credits
• Index
• The DVD documentary The Yiddish Cinema is at the end of the book
