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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography and Transliteration
Introduction
1. How the Wise Men Got to Gotham: The Fools of Chelm Take Manhattan
2. How Foolish Is Jewish Culture? Fools, Jews, and the Carnivalesque Culture of Early Modernity
3. Through the Land of Foolish Culture: From Laleburg to Schildburg
4. Gentile Fools Speaking Yiddish: The Schildbürgerbuch for Jewish Readers
5. The Enlightenment Goes East: How Democritus of Abdera Got to Galicia
6. The Geography of Folly: The Folklorists and the Invention of Chelm
7. Chelm Tales after World War One in German and Yiddish: “Our Schilda” and “Our Chelm Correspondent”
Epilogue: The Once and Future Chelm
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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