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Translator's Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
A Note on Transliteration | p. xvii |
The Basis of Existence | p. 1 |
Definition of Our Subject | p. 3 |
Jewish Society and Its Environment | p. 10 |
Barriers against the Outside | p. 17 |
Contact with the Surrounding Society | p. 26 |
The Attitude toward the Environment | p. 31 |
Economic Structures | p. 38 |
Sociological Aspects of Jewish Capitalism | p. 44 |
Religion and Economic Activity | p. 52 |
Communal Institutions and Structure | p. 63 |
The Form and Structure of the Kehila | p. 65 |
The Kehila's Range of Activities | p. 76 |
The Composition of the Kehila | p. 88 |
Inter-communal Relations | p. 95 |
Supra-Kehila Organizations | p. 103 |
The Family | p. 113 |
The Extended Family | p. 125 |
Confraternities and Social Life | p. 132 |
Religious Institutions | p. 141 |
Educational Institutions | p. 156 |
Stratification and Mobility | p. 170 |
The Beginnings of Breakdown | p. 181 |
The Impact of Historical Events | p. 183 |
Historic Turning Points | p. 195 |
The Transition to Hasidism | p. 202 |
The Emergence of the Neutral Society | p. 214 |
The Haskala's Vision of the Future | p. 226 |
Afterword: Tradition and Crisis and the Study of Early Modern Jewish History | p. 237 |
Notes | p. 255 |
Bibliography | p. 361 |
Index | p. 383 |
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