This collection of short stories introduces to the English-speaking world a major figure of modern Hebrew literature. Dvora Baron, in a series of simple and unsophisticated tales, evokes the athmosphere of every-day life in the small Jewish communities, the stetl, of Eastern Europe. With a compassionate, but never sentimental eye, she describes her characters in firm, powerful language: not a word is wasted, not a line is overdrawn.