The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

[1] "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America", along with an interview with the author, were later collected as an audio book in 1989 read by Ron Rifkin and Mitchell Greenberg.

The story is about an American Yiddish poet who is bitterly jealous of his more-successful contemporary.

The main character also has a personal vendetta against televangelists who are attempting to convert Jews to Christianity.

The woman who lost her purse accuses the father of the artist, because he was in the Imperial German army.

The story is basically an argument between a college girl and her professor about how traffic lights are the icons of American cities.