Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. A New Look at East European Jewish Culture 1
5. Part I. Violence and Civility
6. 1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648–1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness 17
7. 2. ‘‘Civil Christians’’: Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789–1830 46
8. Part II. Mirrors of Popular Culture
9. 3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage 79
10. 4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries 103
11. 5. Cul-de-Sac: The ‘‘Inner Life of Jews’’ on the Fin-de-Sie`cle Polish Stage 119
12. Part III. Politics and Aesthetics
13. 6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ‘‘Half-Intelligentsia,’’ and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1898–1908 145
14. 7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik’s Poems: The Russian Context 176
15. 8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917–1919 196
16. 9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems 241
17. Part IV. Memory Projects
18. 10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner 269
19. 11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach’s Living History Museum 288
20. List of Contributors 307
21. Index 311