Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: The Jews and the Enlightenment 1
5. PART I. A Passion for Knowledge
6. Chapter 1. Intellectual Inferiority: The Affront 21
7. Chapter Two. The Early Haskalah and the Redemption of Knowledge 36
8. Chapter Three. The Secular Author in the Public Arena 68
9. PART II. Jewish Kulturkampf
10. Chapter Four. The Wessely Affair: Threats and Anxieties 87
11. Chapter Five. Projects of Enlightenment and Tests of Tolerance 105
12. Chapter Six. The Rabbinical Elite on the Defensive 139
13. Chapter Seven. On Religious Power and Judaism 163
14. PART III. The Maskilic Republic
15. Chapter Eight. The Society of Friends of the Hebrew Language 185
16. Chapter Nine. The Maskilim: A Group Portrait 200
17. Chapter Ten. Euchel Establishes the Haskalah Movement 221
18. Chapter Eleven. The Society for the Promotion of Goodness and Justice 243
19. Chapter Twelve. Growth and Radicalization 265
20. PART IV. On Two Fronts
21. Chapter Thirteen. Crisis at the Turn of the Century 293
22. Chapter Fourteen. Tensions and Polemics in the Shadow of Crisis 321
23. Chapter Fifteen. On Frivolity and Hypocrisy 342
24. Afterword: Haskalah and Secularization 365
25. Notes 375
26. Index 429