On the eve the jews of europe before the second world war by Wasserstein, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…The melting glacier -- The Christian problem -- Grandees and grandstanders -- From shtetl to shtot -- New Jerusalems -- Holy men -- Unholy women -- Luftmenshn -- Non-Jewish Jews -- The linguistic matrix -- The power of the word -- A people of many books -- Masques of modernity -- Youth -- Utopias -- In the cage, trying to get out -- Camping -- On the eve -- Existential crisis -- Epilogue: Fates known and unknown…”