Chapter one “But I Was Never a Boy”: Accession to Leadership

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. A Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Young Rabbi Israel
7. Chapter one “But I Was Never a Boy”: Accession to Leadership 31
8. Chapter two “The Main Thing Is One’s Own Distinction”: The Argument over Succession 47
9. Part II From Ruzhin to Sadgora: The Making of a Hasidic Leader
10. Chapter three “The Untrod Path”: Emergence and Expansion 69
11. Chapter four “The Jewish Kingdom Is Falling”: The Ushits Case 105
12. Chapter five “Princes Have Persecuted Me Without Reason”: In Prison 116
13. Chapter six The Fugitive: Flight from Russia 128
14. Chapter seven “A Guest at the Inn”: The New Court at Sadgora 136
15. Chapter eight “Broken and Mortified”: The Last Years 163
16. Part III Rabbi Israel as a Hasidic Leader
17. Chapter nine “The Law of People”: Rabbi Israel’s Approach to Communal Leadership 175
18. Chapter ten “All the Money in the World Is Mine”: Visions of Wealth and Royalty 212
19. Chapter eleven “The True Zaddik of the Generation”: Rabbi Israel as Zaddik 244
20. Part IV Rabbi Israel’s Court
21. Chapter twelve “Like a Small State Within a Large One”: The Royal Court and Its Members 267
22. Chapter thirteen “Money for Household Expenses”: Economic Aspects of the Hasidic Royal Courts 285
23. Chapter fourteen “Under One Tent”: The Hasidim and Their Zaddik 310
24. Afterword: Dynamic Adaptation to a Changing World 325
25. Notes 341
26. Glossary 409
27. Works Cited 413
28. Indexes of Names, Places, and Subjects 445
29. Alternate Forms of Place-Names 455