Contents -- Part I: Berlin Before Modernity -- 1. The Crisis of Berlin Jewry: Introduction to the Problem -- 2. A Traditional Jewish Community: Berlin Jewry Before the Changes -- Part II: The Stage of "Peaceful Modernization" -- 3. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the Emergence of a New Economic Elite -- 4. The Intellectuals of the Berlin Haskala -- 5. The Lifestyle of Modernizing Berlin Jews -- 6. Those Outside the Modernizing Groups: Poor Jews and Orthodox Jews in Berlin -- Part III: The Crisis of Berlin Jewry -- 7. The Struggle for Emancipation and Its Radicalizing Impact -- 8. Intellectual Radicalization and Economic Crisis -- 9. The Salons -- 10. The Crisis: Illegitimacy and Family Breakdown -- 11. The Crisis-Conversion: Its Scope and Characteristics -- 12. Religious Reform: An Attempt to Deal with the Crisis -- Part IV: The Social Analysis of the Crisis and Its Connection to the Enlightenment -- 13. Family, Ideology, and Crisis: The Personal Connections Between the Enlightened and the Converts -- 14. Was the Experience of Women Different from Men's Experience? -- 15. The Aftermath of the Crisis: Berlin Jewry After 1823 -- Part V: Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.