Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland : a history of conflict / Marcin Wodziński ; translated by Sarah Cozens ; assistant translator Agnieszka Mirowska.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-326) and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Place Names; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Beginnings: Anti-Hasidic Criticism in the Last Years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; The Mitnagedim; The First Voices of the Haskalah; From Lithuania to Berlin: Salomon Maimon; From Podolia to Galicia: Mendel Lefin; The Commonwealth's First Maskil: Jacques Calmanson; Conclusions; 2. Characteristics of the Haskalah in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1860; What was the Kingdom of Poland?

Who were the Maskilim of the Congress Kingdom?Institutions of the Haskalah: The Maskilim as a Social Group; The Geography of the Polish Haskalah; Ideology and Programme; Does Language Make a Maskil?; Why in Polish? The Polish Haskalah and its Polish Context; Conclusions; 3. The Development of Anti-Hasidic Criticism among the Maskilim of the Congress Kingdom, 1815-1830; The Demonization of Hasidism: Friedländer, Radomiński, Niemcewicz; The Polish Haskalah in the Debate of 1818-1822: Antoni Eisenbaum; The Kalisz Voivodeship: Preliminary Inquiries and Reports

The Government Inquiries of 1818-1824 and Abraham Stern's RoleWhy did the Polish Maskilim Ignore Hasidism?; Conclusions; 4. Growing Interest, Growing Conflict, 1831-1860; Growing Interest in Hasidism; The Theatre of the Hasidim of Efraim Fischelsohn; Reform Projects: Eliasz Moszkowski; A New Stage of Hasidic Expansion; Conflict in Daily Life: Anatomy of Dissent; The First Maskilic Defence of Hasidism: Jakub Tugendhold; Conclusions; 5. The Twilight of the Haskalah and the Dawning of Integration; Maskilim, Integrationists, and Assimilationists; From the Polish Language to a Polish Identity

Polish PatriotismNationality or Religion?; Face to Face with Hasidism; Conclusions; 6. Hatred or Solidarity? Jewish and Polish-Jewish Fraternity in the 1860s; Diagnosis; Solutions; Characteristics of Hasidism; Daniel Neufeld: In Praise of Hasidism; The Anatomy of Conflict: The Sequel; Conclusions; 7. Waning Enthusiasm: Izraelita and the Moderate Integration Movement; Jutrzenka's Heritage; Peltyn's Credo; The Way to Recognition; Izrael Leon Grosglik: 'Letters from a Young Ex-Hasid'; The Great Disillusionment; Hilary Nussbaum: A Historian's Helplessness; New Threats; Conclusions

8. The Death of an Idea: Political, Historical, and Poetic Visions of HasidismAn Ideological Crisis in the Integration Camp; The Political Aspect of Hasidism: Nachum Sokołów; Beyond the Maskilic Historiography of Hasidism; 'Singing and Dancing': The Hasidic Trend in Literature; Conclusions; Conclusion: Between Marginalization, Demonization, and Nostalgia; Appendices; 1. Calmanson on Hasidism (1797); 2. Stern's Report (1818); 3. Radomiński on Hasidism (1820); 4. The Łask Kahal's Complaint about a Hasidic Shtibl (1820); 5. Schönfeld's Report on a Shtibl in Łask (1820)

This award-winning study contextualizes its subject matter within the broader domains of the European Enlightenment, Polish culture, and the politics of the Jewish world.

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