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The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe »

Authors: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
ISBN-13: 9780815604235, ISBN-10: 0815604238
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Book Synopsis

	Maps	2
	Key to Maps	4
	Introduction: The World of East European Jewry	5
1	The Proselytizer: Zusya of Annopol	93
2	A Hasid Prays for Napoleon: Menahem Mendel of Rymanow	94
3	Hasid of Inwardness: Simha Bunam	96
	How To Serve God: Four Tales	97
	He Walked Humbly	99
4	Rebbe of Mystery: Menahem Mendel of Kotsk	100
	I Am Not a God: A Hasidic Tale	101
	Menahem Mendel's Hasidic Mode	103
5	The Rebbe of Lubavich Bests Count Uvarov	107
6	I Served Haskala in Russia	113
7	Rebel and Penitent: Moses Leib Lilienblum	119
	The Sins of My Youth	120
	He was Called Lilienblum	130
8	Lion of Poets, Pilot of Reform: Judah Leib Gordon	132
	An Entry in My Diary	133
	I Meet the Mountain Lion	135
9	A Pilgrimage to Peretz Smolenskin	137
10	My Near-Conversion	145
11	My Educational Mission in Russia	148
12	From Shtetl to the Capital	154
13	Memoirs of a Grandmother	160
14	Truth and Legend About Israel Salanter	171
15	The Old Man of Slobodka	179
16	In the Service of Isaac Elhanan Spektor	186
17	Upholder of the Faith: The Rebbe of Belz	192
18	The Golden Dynasty: Rebbe of Sadeger	195
19	The Two Lights of My Life	200
20	Mother of the Beth Jacob Schools	206
21	When Hasidim of Ger Became Newsmen	210
22	From Freethinker to Believer	213
23	On the Death of Nahman Krochmal	225
24	Under the Sign of Historicism	232
25	When Lawyers Studied History	242
26	My Father, Baron David	248
27	How I Became a Yiddish Linguist	257
28	Balance Sheet of a Jewish Historian	263
29	Notes for My Literary Biography	273
30	I Become a Hebrew Writer	281
31	Isaac Leibush Peretz As We Knew Him	286
	Master of a Literary Generation	286
	Peretz at Home	297
32	Between Two Worlds: S. Ansky	305
	I Enlighten a Shtetl	306
	A Half Year with Ansky	311
33	Torments of Berdichevski's Last Days	313
34	Visiting Goldfaden, Father of the Yiddish Stage	321
35	Joel Engel, Champion of Jewish Music	327
36	What Is a Jewish Artist?	331
37	Daniel Chwolson: A Christian Jew	335
38	I Confess to Dostoevsky	338
39	Jan Bloch: The Loyal Convert	344
40	Henri Bergson's Old-Warsaw Lineage	349
41	Neither Pole Nor Jew	360
42	One of the People: Ahad Ha'am	367
	A Few Facts of My Life	367
	The Most Important Person in My Life	369
43	My Early Days	375
44	Defenders of the City	383
45	A Mind of My Own	388
46	Memoirs by My Typewriter	394
47	Socialist Jews Confront the Pogroms	405
48	The Jewish Factor in My Socialism	411
49	When Yiddish Literature Became Socialist	422
50	The Youth of a Bundist	426
51	From Pole to Jew	435
52	A Social Democrat Only	441
53	Memoirs of an Assassin	448
54	Jewish Rights Between Red and Black	461
55	A Good Russian - A Good Jew	470
56	In the First Russian Duma	473
57	Osias Thon: Statesman of Polish Jews	482
	Sources and Acknowledgments	493
	Index	497