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The original title of this play in the Yiddish, “Raisins and Nuts,” is taken from the folk slumber song which Fraidele sings to her brother: …Father will buy Nuts and raisins for you”

In translation it appeared more feasible, owing to the symbolism of the little play, to entitle it “The Stranger.”

Leaving the house, or part of it—as a patch over the door not whitewashed, denotes a house of mourning.