Machine generated contents note: PART I. POLAND AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FOR JEWS
The Polish Princes' Offer of Protection from Persecution
The Opponents of the Jews
Economic Success
Social Structure and Self-administration of the Jews
Learning and Culture
The Jews as Intermediaries between Town and Country
A Golden Age for the Jews in Poland?
PART II. EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY AS A 'CULTURAL PATTERN OF LIFE' IN EASTERN EUROPE
The Catastrophe of 1648
The Consequences of the Catastrophe
The Kabbala
The Messiah in Poland: Shabtai Tsevi and Jacob Frank
The Popular Piety of Hasidism
The Origins of the Ostjuden
The 'Shtetl'
Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews: Jewish Peddlers and
Innkeepers
The Symbiosis Diminishes
Jews in the Partitions of Poland
The Reaction of the Jews to the New Political, Intellectual,
and Religious Conditions
The Tsarist Empire and the Jews
East European Jews outside Tsarist Rule
PART III. THE CRISIS OF THE JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE A NEW IDENTITY
Transformation of the Traditional Intermediary Function
'Expulsion' and 'Restructuring'
Luftmenshn
Transformation of the Occupational Structure and New
Intermediary Activities
Competition to Oust Rivals from the Market and Anti-
Semitism
Haskala: The Jewish Enlightenment
Assimilation and Acculturation
'Necktied' and 'Kaftaned' Jews
By Way of an Example: Jews in Warsaw and L6di
The Jewish Family
Men and Women in Jewish Society
Jewish Upbringing
Everyday Religious Customs
Synagogue and Community Organizations
Increasing Conflicts with the Non-Jewish World
Socialism, Zionism, New Jewish Identity
Immigration as an Attempt to Find a New Homeland
A Center of East European Jewry: Galicia and Bukovina
A Positive Model with Contradictions: Hungary
Different Attitudes to the Emancipation of the Jews in
Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria
A 'Ritual Murder': The Case of Bohemia and Moravia
PART IV. ATTEMPTED ANNIHILATION AND NEW HOPE
The Jews in the Russian Revolution and in the Soviet Union
East European Jewish Nationality and New Waves of Anti-
Semitism: The Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars
A Precarious Situation in Individual East European
Countries
The Attempted Extermination of the Jews
The Jews in Postwar Poland: New Suffering and New Hope
AFTERWORD: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliographies, Lexicons, and other Aids, Periodicals
General Overviews and Comprehensive Works
Bibliography to Part I: Poland as a Place of Refuge for Jews
Bibliography to Part II: The East European Jewry as a 'New
Cultural Pattern of Life' in Eastern Europe
Bibliography to Part III: The Crisis of the Jews in Eastern
Europe a New Identity
Bibliography to Part IV: Attempted Annihilation and New Hope.