Hasidism: a new history

Introduction: Hasidism as a Modern Movement

Section 1. Origins: The Eighteenth Century

PART I. BEGINNINGS. 1. Hasidism's Birthplace

2. Ba'al Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism?

3. From Circle to Court: The Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's First Opponents

PART II. FROM COURT TO MOVEMENT. 4. Ukraine

5. Lithuania, White Russia, and the Land of Israel

6. Galicia and Central Poland

PART III. BELIEFS AND PRACTICES. 7. Ethos

8. Rituals

9. Institutions

Section 2. Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century. Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century

10. A Golden Age within Two Empires

PART I. VARIETIES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HASIDISM. 11. In the Empire of the Tsars: Russia

12. In the Empire of the Tsars: Poland

13. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina

14. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary

PART II. INSTITUTIONS. 15. "A Little Townlet on Its Own": The Court and Its Inhabitants

16. Between Shtibl and Shtetl

17. Book Culture

PART III. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. 18. Haskalah and Its Successors

19. The State and Public Opinion

20. The Crisis of Modernity

21. Neo-Hasidism

Section 3. Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

PART I. BETWEEN WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II. 22. War and Revolution

23. In a Sovereign Poland

24. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania

25. America and the Land of Israel

26. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust

PART II. POSTWAR PHOENIX: HASIDISM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. 27. America: Hasidism's Goldene Medinah

2. The State of Israel: Haven in Zion

29. Hasidic Society

30. Hasidic Culture

31. In the Eyes of Others: Hasidism in Contemporary Culture

Afterword / Arthur Green.