Chapter IV: “There Was Only One Man in the Shtetl...”: Haredi Judaism’s Founding Myth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Preface: The Gehinom Trio at Slime’s Bar 11
5. Chapter I: ArtScroll Judaism: Haredi Popular Literature in Context 19
6. Chapter II: “Ancient Wisdom”: Haredi Popular Literature and General Culture 43
7. Chapter III: “Not Absolute Truth”: Haredi Writers Debate Their Own Acculturation 73
8. Chapter IV: “There Was Only One Man in the Shtetl...”: Haredi Judaism’s Founding Myth 99
9. Chapter V: “Knowledge of the Clearest and Most Objective Kind”: Simple Faith and Haredi Popular Theology 123
10. Chapter VI: “We Have Been Influenced…”: The Rhetoric of Haredi Internal Criticism 159
11. Chapter VII: Truth, Fiction, and Narrative 191
12. Endnotes 197
13. Selected Bibliography 233
14. Index 247