Cover -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- The Narrow Horizon -- State of the Art and Methodological Reflections -- Assimilation and Integration -- II. Attaching -- Ahasuerus Tries to Conform -- "The Jewish Century" and the "Ordeal of Civility" -- III. Jewish Art -- Jewish Art - Is There Any at All? -- Art Historical Orientalization, the Second Commandment, and the Haskalah -- Oriental "Savages", Folk Art and Emerging Jewish Renaissance -- IV. The Russian Context -- Revolutionary Development -- Restrictions, Settlements, and Financial Contributions, After All -- Mark Antokolski -- Isaac Levitan -- Jewish Patrons and Russian-Jewish Popular Art in the Avant-Garde -- Jewish Renaissance -- Jehuda Pen in Vitebsk -- Renaissance and Revolution -- Marc Chagall -- The Jewish Kazimir Malevich -- The New Theater and Natan Altman -- Naum Gabo and El Lissitzky -- V. Poland - The Partioned Country -- Łódź, the "Jewish" Industrial City -- Difficult to Conform to Polish Society -- Galicia and Jewish Self-Hatred -- Maurycy Gottlieb -- The School in Kraków, Samuel Hirszenberg, Maurycy Minkowski, and Enrico Glicenstein -- Jung Jidysz -- Futurists and Constructivists -- Jewish Art Life in Kraków, Marcel Słodki, and Bruno Schulz -- VI. In Bohemia and Moravia -- The Letter to His Father -- A Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Ghetto -- Alexandr Brandeis and Adolf Wiesner -- From Jewish Prague to Far East: Emil Orlik -- VII. Jews and Magyars -- Michael Lieb becomes Mihály von Munkácsy -- Jewish Counts and Barons - the Hungarian Situation -- Cognitive Dissonance, the City, and the Arts -- István Farkas and Hungarian Art Progress -- Nyolcak - Six Jewish Artists of a Total of Eight -- Anna Lesznai -- Lászlo Moholy-Nagy -- VIII. Paris - Point of Impact -- A "Barbarian Horde" in Montparnasse -- Sonia Delaunay -- Chaïm Soutine and Jacques Lipchitz -- Poles in Paris.

IX. Art, Assimilation, and Jewish Modernity -- Intellectual and Artistic "Nomadism" -- Golem and the Biblical Ban on Images -- Non-Figurative Image and Typographical Experiments -- Jewish Conception of Time, Messianism, Revolutionary Art, and Martin Buber's Hasidism -- Shtetl Culture, the Book, and Polyphonic Language -- "Democratic" Everyday Objects, Pantheism, and Arthur Segal's "Gleichwertigkeit" -- Eclecticism -- A "Postmodern" Sound Box -- X. Sources and Bibliography -- Unpublished Material -- Internet -- Literature -- XI. Illustrations.