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Never better!: the modern Jewish picaresque

Miriam Udel
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • Introduction: "In Life, but Not of It": The Modernist Picaresque (page 1)
  • PART ONE: THE POLIT ON THE MOVE
  • Chapter 1. Sharks and Marks: The Swindles and Seductions of Modernity (page 33)
  • Chapter 2. Living Serially: Neoteny and the Polit (page 67)
  • PART TWO: THE POLIT AS DEMOBILIZED SOLDIER
  • Chapter 3. The Polit at the Waning of Haskalah (page 93)
  • Demobilized Soldiers, Demobilized Jews (page 93)
  • Steel and Iron: A Study in Maskilic Manhood (page 103)
  • Chapter 4. Spillage and Shards: The Polit between the Wars (page 113)
  • PART THREE: THE POLIT AS SOVIET CITIZEN
  • Chapter 5. The Polit under Tsars and Stripes (page 143)
  • Epilogue: "You Must to Dare!": Afterlives of the Polit (page 178)
  • Notes (page 193)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 229)
  • Index (page 241)
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Published: c2016
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472073054 (hardcover)
  • 9780472053056 (paper)
  • 9780472121731 (ebook)
Subject
  • Jewish Studies
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