Hasidism

List of Illustrations and Maps vii
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Note on Spelling, Transliteration, and Annotation xi
Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement 1
Section 1-Origins: The Eighteenth Century
PART I BEGINNINGS
1 Hasidism's Birthplace 17
2 Ba'al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism? 43
3 From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's First Opponents 76
PART II FROM COURT TO MOVEMENT
4 Ukraine 103
5 Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel 118
6 Galicia and Central Poland 141
PART III BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
7 Ethos 159
8 Rituals 183
9 Institutions 222
Section 2-Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century 257
10 A Golden Age within Two Empires 262
PART I VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM
11 In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia 291
12 In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland 332
13 Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina 359
14 Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary 387
PART II INSTITUTIONS
15 "A Little Townlet on Its Own": The Court and Its Inhabitants 403
16 Between Shtibl and Shtetl 429
17 Book Culture 457
PART III RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD
18 Haskalah and Its Successors 477
19 The State and Public Opinion 502
20 The Crisis of Modernity 530
21 Neo-Hasidism 556
Section 3-Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 575
PART I BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II
22 War and Revolution 579
23 In a Sovereign Poland 597
24 Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania 623
25 America and the Land of Israel 637
26 Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust 652
PART II POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
27 America: Hasidism's Goldene Medinah 677
28 The State of Israel: Haven in Zion 707
29 Hasidic Society 740
30 Hasidic Culture 770
31 In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture 793
Afterword by Arthur Green 807
Annotated Bibliography 813
About the Authors 847
Index 849