Title: Minyan
First published: 1971
Description: *Minyan* is a collection of 10 short stories, which vary from two to 45 pages, that is dedicated to the author's mother. Jacobson uses dialogue to tell the majority of his stories, much the same way he, as a working journalist, would use quotes to provide the weight of the article. Although Jacobson notes that the stories are fictitious, one can't help but read some of his work as, at least partially, autobiographical.
Please find the complete table of contents below:

*Waiting* (epigraph)
 1. *Minyan* +
 2. "You'll Be A Gentile!" +
     *A Jewish Mayor* (poem)
 3. Out-Of-Season
 4. Fish Eaters
 5. The Collector
 6. Tricycles And Bicycles ~
 7. The Way It Finishes
 8. I Try To Write
 9. One Thing I Can't Stand
 10. A Black River
*Epilogue: The New Messiah*

+Early versions of the stories "*Minyan*" and "You'll be a Gentile!" were published in *The Canadian Forum*.
~"Tricycles And Bicycles" was in The Nova Scotia *Journal of Education*.
LC classification: PS8569A4 M55