Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation xi
6. Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement 1
7. SECTION 1 - ORIGINS: The Eighteenth Century
8. PART I. BEGINNINGS
9. Hasidism’s Birthplace 17
10. Ba’al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism? 43
11. From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism’s First Opponents 77
12. PART II. FROM COURT TO MOVEMENT
13. Ukraine 103
14. Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel 118
15. Galicia and Central Poland 141
16. PART III. BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
17. Ethos 159
18. Rituals 183
19. Institutions 222
20. SECTION 2 - GOLDEN AGE: The Nineteenth Century
21. Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century 257
22. A Golden Age within Two Empires 263
23. PART I. VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM
24. In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia 291
25. In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland 332
26. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina 359
27. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary 387
28. PART II. INSTITUTIONS
29. “A Little townlet on Its Own”: The Hasidic Court and Its Inhabitants 403
30. Between Shtibl and Shtetl 429
31. Book Culture 457
32. PART III. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD
33. Haskalah and Its Successors 477
34. The State and Public Opinion 502
35. The Crisis of Modernity 531
36. Neo- Hasidism 556
37. SECTION 3 - DEATH AND RESURRECTION: The Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries
38. Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 575
39. PART I. BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
40. War and Revolution 579
41. In a Sovereign Poland 597
42. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania 623
43. America and the Land of Israel 637
44. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust 652
45. PART II. POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
46. America: Hasidism’s Goldene Medinah 677
47. The State of Israel: Haven in Zion 707
48. Hasidic Society 740
49. Hasidic Culture 770
50. In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture 793
51. Afterword 807
52. Annotated Bibliography 813
53. About the Authors 847
54. Index 849