The golden tradition

Titel: The golden tradition : Jewish life and thought in Eastern Europe / Lucy S. Dawidowicz
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Veröffentlicht: New York; NY : Schocken books, 1984
Umfang: 502 S. : Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
RVK-Notation:
ISBN: 0805207686
Lokale Klassifikation: 26 15 A ; 31 15 A ; 31 3 F
  • Introduction
  • p. 5
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • p. 89
  • I
  • Early Hasidism
  • p. 91
  • 1
  • The Proselytizer: Zusya of Annopol
  • p. 93
  • 2
  • A Hasid Prays for Napoleon: Menahem Mendel of Rymanow
  • p. 94
  • 3
  • Hasid of Inwardness: Simha Bunam
  • p. 96
  • 4
  • Rebbe of Mystery: Menahem Mendel of Kotsk
  • p. 100
  • 5
  • The Rebbe of Lubavich Bests Count Uvarov
  • p. 107
  • II
  • The Haskala
  • p. 111
  • 6
  • I Served Haskala in Russia
  • p. 113
  • 7
  • Rebel and Penitent: Moses Leib Lilienblum
  • p. 119
  • 8
  • Lion of Poets, Pilot of Reform: Judah Leib Gordon
  • p. 132
  • 9
  • A Pilgrimage to Peretz Smolenskin
  • p. 137
  • III
  • The Quest for Education
  • p. 143
  • 10
  • My Near-Conversion
  • p. 145
  • 11
  • My Educational Mission in Russia
  • p. 148
  • 12
  • From Shtetl to the Capital
  • p. 154
  • 13
  • Memoirs of a Grandmother by Pauline Wengeroff
  • p. 160
  • IV
  • The World of Tradition
  • p. 169
  • 14
  • Truth and Legend About Israel Salanter by Jacob Mark
  • p. 171
  • 15
  • The Old Man of Slobodka
  • p. 179
  • 16
  • In the Service of Isaac Elhanan Spektor
  • p. 186
  • 17
  • Upholder of the Faith: The Rebbe of Belz
  • p. 192
  • 18
  • The Golden Dynasty: Rebbe of Sadeger
  • p. 195
  • 19
  • The Two Lights of My Life
  • p. 200
  • 20
  • Mother of the Beth Jacob Schools
  • p. 206
  • 21
  • When Hasidim of Ger Became Newsmen
  • p. 210
  • 22
  • From Freethinker to Believer
  • p. 213
  • V
  • Scholars and Philosophers
  • p. 224
  • 23
  • On the Death of Nahman Krochmal
  • p. 225
  • 24
  • Under the Sign of Historicism
  • p. 232
  • 25
  • When Lawyers Studied History
  • p. 242
  • 26
  • My Father, Baron David by Sophie Günzburg
  • p. 248
  • 27
  • How I Became a Yiddish Linguist
  • p. 257
  • 28
  • Balance Sheet of a Jewish Historian
  • p. 263
  • VI
  • Literary Men
  • p. 271
  • 29
  • Notes for My Literary Biography by Mendele Mokher Sforim
  • p. 273
  • 30
  • I Become a Hebrew Writer
  • p. 281
  • 31
  • Isaac Leibush Peretz As We Knew Him
  • p. 286
  • 32
  • Between Two Worlds: S. Ansky
  • p. 305
  • 33
  • Torments of Berdichevski's Last Days
  • p. 313
  • VII
  • The Arts
  • p. 319
  • 34
  • Visiting Goldfaden, Father of the Yiddish Stage
  • p. 321
  • 35
  • Joel Engel, Champion of Jewish Music
  • p. 327
  • 36
  • What Is a Jewish Artist?
  • p. 331
  • VII
  • Marginals
  • p. 333
  • 37
  • Daniel Chwolson: A Christian Jew
  • p. 335
  • 38
  • I Confess to Dostoevsky
  • p. 338
  • 39
  • Jan Bloch: The Loyal Convert
  • p. 344
  • 40
  • Henri Bergson's Old-Warsaw Lineage
  • p. 349
  • 41
  • Neither Pole Nor Jew
  • p. 360
  • IX
  • In the Zionist Movement
  • p. 365
  • 42
  • One of the People: Ahad Ha'am
  • p. 367
  • 43
  • My Early Days
  • p. 375
  • 44
  • Defenders of the City
  • p. 383
  • 45
  • A Mind of My Own
  • p. 388
  • 46
  • Memoirs by My Typewriter
  • p. 394
  • X
  • In the Revolutionary Movements
  • p. 403
  • 47
  • Socialist Jews Confront the Pogroms
  • p. 405
  • 48
  • The Jewish Factor in My Socialism
  • p. 411
  • 49
  • When Yiddish Literature Became Socialist
  • p. 422
  • 50
  • The Youth of a Bundist
  • p. 426
  • 51
  • From Pole to Jew
  • p. 435
  • 52
  • A Social Democrat Only
  • p. 441
  • 53
  • Memoirs of an Assassin
  • p. 448
  • XI
  • In Political Life
  • p. 459
  • 54
  • Jewish Rights Between Red and Black
  • p. 461
  • 55
  • A Good Russian -- A Good Jew
  • p. 470
  • 56
  • In the First Russian Duma
  • p. 473
  • 57
  • Osias Thon: Statesman of Polish Jews
  • p. 482
  • Sources and Acknowledgments
  • p. 493
  • Index
  • p. 497