Melnitz

Acknowledgements

For their help with research I wish to thank the historian Ursulina Wyss and the helpful ladies in the ICZ Library. My wonderful daughter Tamar Lewinsky corrected the Hebrew and Yiddish expressions and wrote the glossary.

The translator wishes to thank Pro Helvetia and the Max Geilinger Foundation for their generous award in funding the translation, and the staff at Looren Translation House, as well as John Stevens, Nina-Anne Kaye and the Guggenheim family of Zurich for their help and hospitality.