Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands Book

Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, In following the lives of Mendel Lefin and his disciple Joseph Perl, Sinkoff (Jewish studies and history, Rutgers U.) unfolds the cultural and intellectual history of Polish Jews' encounter with the West, the European Enlightenment and the Jewish Enlighte, Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands

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Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands
Written by author Nancy Sinkoff
Published by Brown Judaic Studies, January 2004
In following the lives of Mendel Lefin and his disciple Joseph Perl, Sinkoff (Jewish studies and history, Rutgers U.) unfolds the cultural and intellectual history of Polish Jews' encounter with the West, the European Enlightenment and the Jewish Enlighte

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Acknowledgments ix
A Word about Place Names xiii
List of Maps and Illustrations xv
Introduction: Enlightening Polish Jews, Moderating the Jewish Enlightenment 1
Chapter 1. In the Podolian Steppe 14
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 14
Jewish Settlement in the Noble Republic 16
Traditional Ashkenazic Jewish Culture in the Eighteenth Century 19
The Sabbatian and Frankist Challenge 23
The Heartland of Hasidism 34
East Meets West: Mendel Lefin's Encounter with the Berlin Haskalah 45
Chapter 2. The Maskil and the Prince: Private Patronage and the Dissemination of the Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe 50
"The Family" and Pre-Partition Reform 57
The Polish Englightenment and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski 62
On the Eve of the First Partition 67
Reforming Poland, Reforming Poland's Jews 69
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Lefin, and the Russian Legislation of 1804 106
Chapter 3. The Battle against Hasidism and the Struggle for the Adolescent Soul 113
Mendel Lefin's Psychology 114
Limiting Reason in the East European Jewish Englightenment 120
Training the Rational Soul 132
The Dangers of Enthusiasm and Imagination 141
The Immortality of the Enlightened Soul 161
Chapter 4. The Linguistic Boundaries of Enlightenment: Revisiting the Language Polemic in Eastern Europe 168
Wisdom and the Turn to Yiddish 173
Berlin Rears Its Head 176
Defending and Transforming Early Modern Poland 181
The Role of Yiddish in the Shifting Borders of Ashkenaz 198
Chapter 5. After Partition: The Haskalah in Austrian Galicia 203
The Creation of Galicia 205
Absolutism and Habsburg Policy for the Jews of Galicia 208
The 1789 Edict of Toleration 217
Joseph Perl and the Moderate Haskalah 225
The Battle against Hasidism is Pitched 237
Haminhag kehalakhah hu ("Custom is as Binding as Law") 241
Minhag, Rabbinic Authority, and Modernity 262
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Moderate Haskalah 271
Appendix "Prayer against the Hasidim" 274
Bibliography 276
Index 310

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The Sabbatean Prophets was an excellent study into the background and setting of the Sabbatean movement. Goldish covers the various millenarian movements in Judaism, Christianity, and even Islam as well as some of the political events that help explain how so many Jews could support Sabbatai Zevi's claim. Anyone interested in this episode of Jewish history should definitely read this book. I was also fascinated by Zevi's wife who appears to have been an "Ashkenazic Conversa" for a lack of a better term.

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	Acknowledgments	ix
	A Word about Place Names	xiii
	List of Maps and Illustrations	xv
	Introduction: Enlightening Polish Jews, Moderating the Jewish Enlightenment	1
Chapter 1.	In the Podolian Steppe	14
	The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	14
	Jewish Settlement in the Noble Republic	16
	Traditional Ashkenazic Jewish Culture in the Eighteenth Century	19
	The Sabbatian and Frankist Challenge	23
	The Heartland of Hasidism	34
	East Meets West: Mendel Lefin's Encounter with the Berlin Haskalah	45
Chapter 2.	The Maskil and the Prince: Private Patronage and the Dissemination of the Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe	50
	"The Family" and Pre-Partition Reform	57
	The Polish Englightenment and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski	62
	On the Eve of the First Partition	67
	Reforming Poland, Reforming Poland's Jews	69
	Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Lefin, and the Russian Legislation of 1804	106
Chapter 3.	The Battle against Hasidism and the Struggle for the Adolescent Soul	113
	Mendel Lefin's Psychology	114
	Limiting Reason in the East European Jewish Englightenment	120
	Training the Rational Soul	132
	The Dangers of Enthusiasm and Imagination	141
	The Immortality of the Enlightened Soul	161
Chapter 4.	The Linguistic Boundaries of Enlightenment: Revisiting the Language Polemic in Eastern Europe	168
	Wisdom and the Turn to Yiddish	173
	Berlin Rears Its Head	176
	Defending and Transforming Early Modern Poland	181
	The Role of Yiddish in the Shifting Borders of Ashkenaz	198
Chapter 5.	After Partition: The Haskalah in Austrian Galicia	203
	The Creation of Galicia	205
	Absolutism and Habsburg Policy for the Jews of Galicia	208
	The 1789 Edict of Toleration	217
	Joseph Perl and the Moderate Haskalah	225
	The Battle against Hasidism is Pitched	237
	Haminhag kehalakhah hu ("Custom is as Binding as Law")	241
	Minhag, Rabbinic Authority, and Modernity	262
	Epilogue: The Legacy of the Moderate Haskalah	271
Appendix	"Prayer against the Hasidim"	274
	Bibliography	276
	Index	310