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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation
Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement
Section 1—Origins: The Eighteenth Century
Part I. Beginnings
1. Hasidism’s Birthplace
2. Ba’al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism?
3. From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism’s First Opponents
Part II. From Court to Movement
4. Ukraine
5. Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel
6. Galicia and Central Poland
Part III. Beliefs and Practices
7. Ethos
8. Rituals
9. Institutions
Section 2—Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century
Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century
10. A Golden Age within Two Empires
Part I. Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Hasidism
11. In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia
12. In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland
13. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina
14. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary
Part II. Institutions
15. “A Little Townlet on Its Own”: The Court and Its Inhabitants
16. Between Shtibl and Shtetl
17. Book Culture
Part III. Relations with the Outside World
18. Haskalah and Its Successors
19. The State and Public Opinion
20. The Crisis of Modernity
21. Neo-Hasidism
Section 3—Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Part I. Between World War I and World War II
22. War and Revolution
23. In a Sovereign Poland
24. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
25. America and the Land of Israel
26. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust
Part II. Postwar Phoenix: Hasidism After the Holocaust
27. America: Hasidism’s Goldene Medinah
28. The State of Israel: Haven in Zion
29. Hasidic Society
30. Hasidic Culture
31. In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture
Afterword
Annotated Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
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