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

Nancy Sinkoff

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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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Published: 2004

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-951498-65-8 (PDF)
978-1-930675-84-1 (ebook)

Subject

Religion