The day my mother changed her name : and other stories / William D. Kaufman ; with forewords by Max Apple & Carol Montparker.

The Maftir chronicles -- The swindle -- The midwife -- The day the war ended on Penn Avenue -- A Chanukah gift -- Cheder -- Viola -- The day my mother changed her name -- Cigarettes -- Fractions -- Miss Wheatley -- My life in the theater -- The mortgage -- Bar mitzvah soliloquy -- The second industry -- The informer -- The search for God at the A&P -- The atrocity -- Miss Portia's bosom -- The great wop Donaldson -- The incident -- My cousin Izzy -- The barn -- My mother and the Illui -- The shadchen -- The day I left -- Return to Pisa -- The library -- Disappearing act -- The day the messiah came.