Families, Rabbis and education

• Life of Tables
• p. xi

• Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
• p. xiii

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part 1
• Family and Gender

• 1
• The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage
• p. 7

• 2
• Love and Family
• p. 26

• 3
• Remarriage among Jews and Christians
• p. 56

• 4
• Scientific Welfare and Lonely Old People: The Development of Old-Age Homes
• p. 86

• 5
• The Pushke and its Development
• p. 102

• 6
• Was the Traditional East European Jewish Family in the Recent Past Patriarchal?
• p. 121

• Part II
• Education

• 7
• Heder Study, Knowledge of Torah, and the Maintenance of Social Stratification
• p. 145

• 8
• Gender Differentiation and the Education of Jewish Women
• p. 167

• 9
• Literacy among Jews in Eastern Europe in the Modern Period
• p. 190

• 10
• Dormitory and Yeshiva in Eastern Europe
• p. 211

• 11
• Is the Question the Answer? The Context and Consequences of an Educational Pattern
• p. 229

• 12
• Hasidic Yeshivas in Interwar Poland
• p. 252

• Part III
• The Rabbinate

• 13
• The Missing Rabbis of Eastern Europe
• p. 277

• 14
• The Inheritance of the Rabbinate in Eastern Europe
• p. 302

• 15
• The Making and Maintenance of the Image of the Gaon of Vilna
• p. 324

• 16
• The Controversy over Shehitah and the Struggle between Hasidim and Mitnagedim
• p. 342

• Gazetteer of Place Names in Central and Eastern Europe
• p. 357

• Bibliography
• p. 365

• Index
• p. 399