Cover -- Culture Front -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A New Look at East European Jewish Culture -- PART I. VIOLENCE AND CIVILITY -- 1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness -- 2. ''Civil Christians'': Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830 -- PART II. MIRRORS OF POPULAR CULTURE -- 3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stag -- 4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries -- 5. Cul-de-Sac: The ''Inner Life of Jews'' on the Fin-de-Siècle Polish Stage -- PART III. POLITICS AND AESTHETICS -- 6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ''Half-Intelligentsia,'' and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1899-1908 -- 7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context -- 8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919 -- 9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems -- PART IV. MEMORY PROJECTS -- 10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner -- 11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum -- List of Contributors -- Index.