Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Content -- I: Displacement and Exile -- IsraIsland -- A Home Called Exile -- The Kitchen -- Mirka and I -- Independence Park: A Fiction -- Burning in Cuba -- Homeland Security -- A Letter to My Grandmother on Coming Home from Europe -- Marked by Carnival -- Homesick -- Memories of My Chinese Home -- II: Place and Memory -- To Return to One's Homeland -- Snow Unites Jerusalem -- From Cairo to Chicago -- Bella, 1908 -- Sisters -- Shalom Bayit -- All But My Life -- Kentucky Fried Chicken -- America -- East -- The Mah-Jongg Set -- A Jewish Romanian in Oxford -- In the Margin -- To the Smell of Sea and Pickle -- Isibaya (The Home) -- III: Language and Creativity -- Yiddishland -- Silence -- The Girl in the Balcony -- The Music and Language of Home -- Here -- Posit -- Morning Exercise -- Renaissance -- Line of Defense -- IV: Family and Tradition -- I, May I Find Home -- The Dina Letters -- My Indian Bene Israel Home -- In Your Letter -- If Only I'd Been Born a Kosher Chicken -- My Mother's Roots -- My Iranian Sukkah -- Home for Thanksgiving -- At Home in Shabbat -- Learning the Language -- When We Are BornWe Are Given a Golden Tentand All of Life Is the Foldingand Setting Up of the Tent -- Back Matter -- Notes on Contributors.