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Characters

Gruna, the widow of a Scribe, a thin, nervous, little woman
Miriam, an old maid, somewhere in the twenties	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ her daughters
Saril, a grass-widow of twenty
Hadas, a dressmaker's apprentice, 16 or 17 years old
Dvorah, a tall, heavy woman without eyebrows

 

Notes

Kao Hayoshir: Title of a book: “The Straight Road.”
Kosher: Ritually clean; pure. (Hebrew.)
Nebich: Poor thing.
Yiddish-Deutsch: Judaeo-German translation of a Hebrew text.

It was customary to marry off maidens at a very tender age, so that a girl remaining unmarried at twenty was considered an “old maid.”