Prologue: Old questions : Do they deserve new answers?
The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy
Modern Jewish literary thinking: the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism
The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries
The inter-bellum decades: Hebrew
The inter-bellum decades: Yiddish : issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times
Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities
Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant
Jewish diglossias, differential and integral
Contiguity: Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex
Contiguity: how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous
Conclusion: toward a new Jewish literary thinking
Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.