From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Preface: A granddaughter's memories
Russian Jewish timeline: a brief chronology of historical events, 1881
Prologue: Stavishche, June 15
Part I: Calm before the storm: 1876-1918
Avrum Cutler's brief betrothals
Count Wladyslaw Branicki and the noble family of Stavishche
Part II: The pogroms: 1917-1920
Ataman Zeleny meets Rabbi Pitsie Avram
The murder of Bessie Cutler's husband
General Denikin's militia
Part III: Exodus to the Goldene Medina, 1920-1925
There was a place nearby, where they made the little coffins
The unlikely arrival of Barney Stumacher, an American hero
The great escape: the wagon trains
The perilous crossing of the Dniester River
Part IV: Rebecca and Isaac's children: select stories in Philadelphia, 1926-1931
Struggling in the golden land
The story of Anne and Ben
Part V: Rabbis and reunions 1941-1950 rainbows 1925 and 2003
Rabbi Pitsie Avram in the Bronx
The events that defined their lives in the New World