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Never better!: the modern Jewish picaresque
Miriam Udel
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page xiii)
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Introduction: "In Life, but Not of It": The Modernist Picaresque (page 1)
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PART ONE: THE POLIT ON THE MOVE
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Chapter 1. Sharks and Marks: The Swindles and Seductions of Modernity (page 33)
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Chapter 2. Living Serially: Neoteny and the Polit (page 67)
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PART TWO: THE POLIT AS DEMOBILIZED SOLDIER
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Chapter 3. The Polit at the Waning of Haskalah (page 93)
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Demobilized Soldiers, Demobilized Jews (page 93)
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Steel and Iron: A Study in Maskilic Manhood (page 103)
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Chapter 4. Spillage and Shards: The Polit between the Wars (page 113)
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PART THREE: THE POLIT AS SOVIET CITIZEN
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Chapter 5. The Polit under Tsars and Stripes (page 143)
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Epilogue: "You Must to Dare!": Afterlives of the Polit (page 178)
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Notes (page 193)
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Selected Bibliography (page 229)
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Index (page 241)
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Published: c2016
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 9780472073054 (hardcover)
- 9780472053056 (paper)
- 9780472121731 (ebook)