Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The European Cities of Modernist Hebrew Fiction -- 1. Spatializing the Margins: Hebrew Modernism and the Urban Experience -- 2. Odessa and Warsaw: A Tale of Two Centers? -- 3. Homel and Lvov: The Significance of the Frontiers -- 4. London: A Foggy Day in Whitechapel -- 5. Vienna: "This Mocking and Innocent City" -- 6. Berlin: Between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches Café -- Part II: Sexuality and Gender in Modernist Hebrew Fiction -- 7. The Sexual Turn in Modernist Fiction of Fin de Siècle Europe -- 8. "I Am So Weak and My Desire Is So Strong": The Crisis of (Jewish) Masculinity -- 10. Writing, Masculinity, and Sexual Desire -- 11. Imagining the Beloved: The New (Jewish) Woman -- 9. In the House and in the Gardens: Erotic Triangulations and Homosocial Desire -- Part III: Tradition, Modernity, and Religious Experience in Modernist Hebrew Fiction -- 12. Old Wine in New Flasks: The Reinvention of Jewish Traditions -- 13. In the Shadow of God: The Quest for New Religiosity in European and Hebrew Modernism -- 14. Mysterium Tremendum: The Varieties of Religious Experience in Hebrew Modernism -- 15. Out of the Depths: Visions and Guiding Spirits -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Meaning of Hasidism and Its Echoes in Modern Hebrew Literature (1906) -- Notes -- Index.