List of Maps
xiii
Note on Transliterations and Place-Names xiii
Glossary xv
Introduction xvii
1 The Melting Glacier
1(28)
2 The Christian Problem
29(22)
3 Grandees and Grandstanders
51(28)
4 From Shtetl to Shtot
79(19)
5 New Jerusalems
98(27)
6 Holy Men
125(27)
7 Unholy Women
152(19)
8 Luftmenshn
171(25)
9 Non-Jewish Jews
196(25)
10 The Linguistic Matrix
221(22)
11 The Power of the Word
243(20)
12 A People of Many Books
263(23)
13 Masques of Modernity
286(27)
14 Youth
313(25)
15 Utopias
338(23)
16 In the Cage, Trying to Get Out
361(26)
17 Camping
387(22)
18 On the Eve
409(19)
19 Existential Crisis
428(9)
Epilogue: Fates Known and Unknown 437(24)
Notes 461(32)
Sources 493(28)
Acknowledgments 521(2)
Illustration Credits 523(2)
Index 525