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Title

The golden tradition : Jewish life and thought in Eastern Europe / [edited by] Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Publication

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Description

502 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Modern Jewish history

Uniform Title

Modern Jewish history.

Subject

• Jews > Europe, Eastern
• Europe, Eastern > Ethnic relations

Note

• Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-495) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : the world of East European Jewry -- Preamble : contours of East European Jewry -- Hasidism and Haskala -- Education, reform and assimilation -- New religions : science, progress, humanity -- National renewal -- Jewish politics : under despotism and dictatorship -- Opening the gates -- Early Hasidism -- The proselytizer : Zusya of Annopol -- A hasid prays for Napoleon : Menahem Mendel of Rymanow -- Hasid of inwardness : Simha Bunam -- How to werve god : four tales. He walked humbly / Pinhas Zelig Gliksman -- Rebbe of mystery : Menahem Mendel of Kotsk. I am not a god : a hasidic tale. Menahem Mendel's hasidic mode / Pinhas Zelig Gliksman -- The rebbe of Lubavich bests count Uvarov / Chaim Meir Hellman -- The Haskala -- I served Haskala in Russia / Abraham Ber Gottlober -- Rebel and penitent : Moses Leib Lilienblum / Moses Leib Lilienblum -- He was called Lilienblum / David Frischman -- Lion of poets, pilot of reform : Judah Leib Gordon. An entry in my diary / Judah Leib Gordon -- I meet the mountain lion / Gershom Bader -- A pilgrimage to Peretz Smolenskin / Samuel Leib Citron -- The quest for education -- My near- conversion / Solomon Maimon -- My educational mission in Russia / Max Lilienthal -- From Shtetl to the capital / Lev Ossipovich Mandelstamm -- Memoirs of a grandmother / Pauline Wengeroff --
• (cont.)The world of tradition -- Truth and legend about Israel Salanter / Jacob Mark -- The old man of Slobodka / M. Gerz -- In the service of Isaac Elhanan Spektor / Jacob Halevy Lipshitz -- Upholder of the faith : the Rebbe of Belz / Joseph Margoshes -- The golden dynasty : Rebbe of Sadeger / Isaac Ewen -- The two lights of my life / Isaac Jacob Reines -- Mother of the Beth Jacob schools / Sarah Schenirer -- When Hasidim of Ger became newsmen / Moshe Prager -- From freethinker to believer / Nathan Birnbaum -- Scholars and philosophers -- On the death of Nahman Krochmal / Solomon J. Rapoport -- Under the sign of historicism / Simon Dubnow -- When lawyers studied history / Maxim M. Vinaver -- My father, Baron David / Sophie Gunzburg -- How I became a Yiddish linguist / Nokhum Shtif -- Balance sheet of a Jewish historian / Jacob Shatzky -- Literary men -- Notes for my literary biography / Mendele Mokher Sforim -- I become a Hebrew writer / Reuben Brainin --
• (cont.)Isaac Leibush Peretz as we knew him. Master of a literary generation / Hersh D. Nomberg -- Peretz at home / Jehiel Isaiah Trunk -- Between two worlds : S. Ansky. I enlighten a shtetl / S. Ansky -- A half year with Ansky / Haykel Lunsky -- Torments of Berdichevski's last days / Fischel Lachower -- The arts -- Visiting Goldfaden, father of the Yiddish stage / David I. Silberbusch -- Joel Engel, champion of Jewish music / Jacob Weinberg -- What is a Jewish artist? / Marc Chagall -- Marginals -- Daniel Chwolson : a Christian Jew / David Gunzburg -- I confess to Dostoevsky / Abraham Uri Kovner -- Jan Bloch : the loyal convert / Nahum Sokolow -- Henri Bergson's old-Warsaw lineage / Nahum Sokolow -- Neither Pole nor Jew / Leopold Infeld -- In the Zionist movement -- One of the people : Ahad Ha'am. A few facts of my life / Ahad Ha'am -- The most important person in my life / Chaim Nahman Bialik -- My early days / Chaim Weizmann -- Defenders of the city / Schneur Zalman Shazar -- A mind of my own / Puah Rakowski -- Memoirs by my typewriter / Vladimir Jabotinsky --
• (cont.)In the revolutionary movements -- Socialist Jews confront the pogroms / Pavel Borisovich Axelrod -- The Jewish factor in my socialism / Chaim Zhitlowsky -- When Yiddish literature became socialist / Abraham Liessin -- The youth of a Bundist / Vladimir Medem -- From Pole to Jew / Bronislaw Grosser -- A social democrat only / Leon Trotsky -- Memoirs of an assassin / Sholem Schwartzbard -- In political Life -- Jewish rights between Red and Black / Simon Dubnow -- A good Russian-A good Jew / Henrik Sliosberg -- In the first Russian Duma / Shmarya Levin -- Osias Thon : statesman of Polish Jews / Isaac Grynbaum.

ISBN

0815604238 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96008858^

OCLC

• 34704915
• SCSB-10764924

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library