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Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands

Nancy Sinkoff 2004 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license © Brown University
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  • 978-1-951498-65-8 (PDF)
  • 978-1-930675-84-1 (ebook)
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  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Publishers’ Preface
  • Nancy Sinkoff Preface, January 13, 2020
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Word about Place Names
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Introduction: Enlightening Polish Jews, Moderating the Jewish Enlightenment
  • Chapter One. In the Podolian Steppe
    • The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
    • Jewish Settlement in the Noble Republic
    • Traditional Ashkenazic Jewish Culture in the Eighteenth Century
    • The Sabbatian and Frankist Challenge
    • The Heartland of Hasidism
    • East Meets West: Mendel Lefin’s Encounter with the Berlin Haskalah
  • Chapter Two. The Maskil and the Prince: Private Patronage and the Dissemination of the Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe
    • “The Family” and Pre-Partition Reform
    • The Polish Enlightenment and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski
    • On the Eve of the First Partition
    • Reforming Poland, Reforming Poland’s Jews
    • Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Lefin, and the Russian Legislation of 1804
  • Chapter Three. The Battle against Hasidism and the Struggle for the Adolescent Soul
    • Mendel Lefin’s Psychology
    • Limiting Reason in the East European Jewish Enlightenment
    • Training the Rational Soul
    • The Dangers of Enthusiasm and Imagination
    • The Immortality of the Enlightened Soul
  • Chapter Four. The Linguistic Boundaries of Enlightenment: Revisiting the Language Polemic in Eastern Europe
    • Wisdom and the Turn to Yiddish
    • Berlin Rears Its Head
    • Defending and Transforming Early Modern Poland
    • The Role of Yiddish in the Shifting Borders of Ashkenaz
  • Chapter Five. After Partition: The Haskalah in Austrian Galicia
    • The Creation of Galicia
    • Absolutism and Habsburg Policy for the Jews of Galicia
    • The 1789 Edict of Toleration
    • Joseph Perl and the Moderate Haskalah
    • The Battle against Hasidism is Pitched
    • Haminhag kehalakhah hu (“Custom is as Binding as Law”)
    • Minhag, Rabbinic Authority, and Modernity
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of the Moderate Haskalah
  • Appendix: “Prayer against the Hasidim”
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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