Hasidism: a new history

Introduction: Hasidism as a modern movement -- Section 1. Origins: The Eighteenth Century -- Part I. Beginnings : -- 1. Hasidism's birthplace -- 2. Ba'al Shem Tov: founder of Hasidism? -- 3. From circle to court: the Maggid of Mezritsh and Hasidism's first opponents -- Part II. From Court to Movement : -- 4. Ukraine -- 5. Lithuania, White Russia, and the land of Israel -- 6. Galicia and central Poland -- Part III. Beliefs and Practices : -- 7. Ethos -- 8. Rituals -- 9. Institutions -- Section 2. Golden Age: The Nineteenth Century : -- Introduction: Toward the Nineteenth Century -- 10. A golden age within two empires -- Part I. Varieties of Nineteenth-Century Hasidism : -- 11. In the empire of the Tsars: Russia -- 12. In the empire of the Tsars: Poland -- 13. Habsburg Hasidism: Galicia and Bukovina -- 14. Habsburg Hasidism: Hungary -- Part II. Institutions : -- 15. "A little townlet on its own": the court and its inhabitants -- 16. Between shtibl and shtetl -- 17. Book culture -- Part III. Relations with the Outside World : -- 18. Haskalah and its successors -- 19. The state and public opinion -- 20. The crisis of modernity -- 21. Neo-Hasidism -- Section 3. Death and Resurrection: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries : -- Introduction: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Part I. Between World War I AND World War II : -- 22. War and revolution -- 23. In a sovereign Poland -- 24. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Romania -- 25. America and the land of Israel -- 26. Khurbn: Hasidism and the Holocaust -- Part II. Postwar Phoenix: Hasidism after the Holocaust : -- 27. America: Hasidism's "goldene medinah" -- 2. The state of Israel: haven in Zion -- 29. Hasidic society -- 30. Hasidic culture -- 31. In the eyes of others: Hasidism in contemporary culture -- Afterword / Arthur Green