Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The European Cities of Modernist Hebrew Fiction
7. One. Spatializing the Margins 29
8. Two. Odessa and Warsaw 39
9. Three. Homel and Lvov 54
10. Four. London 76
11. Five. Vienna 87
12. Six. Berlin 105
13. Part II. Sexuality and Gender in Modernist Hebrew Fiction
14. Seven. The Sexual Turn in Modernist Fiction of Fin de Siècle Europe 147
15. Eight. “I Am So Weak and My Desire Is So Strong” 165
16. Nine. In the House and in the Gardens 185
17. Ten. Writing, Masculinity, and Sexual Desire 205
18. Eleven. Imagining the Beloved 237
19. Part III. Tradition, Modernity, and Religious Experience in Modernist Hebrew Fiction
20. Twelve. Old Wine in New Flasks 275
21. Thirteen. In the Shadow of God 305
22. Fourteen. Mysterium Tremendum 337
23. Fifteen. Out of the Depths 360
24. Epilogue 391
25. Appendix. The Meaning of Hasidism and Its Echoes in Modern Hebrew Literature (1906) 403
26. Notes 407
27. Index 473