| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: | Acknowledgments | | | Note on Abbreviations, Translations, and Transliteration | | | Ch. 1 | Introduction: The Modernist Creation of Tradition | 3 | | Ch. 2 | Self-Creation and the Creation of Culture | 29 | | Ch. 3 | Making History: Modernist Cathedrals | 66 | | Ch. 4 | Judaic Chaos | 103 | | Ch. 5 | The Currency of the Past | 146 | | Ch. 6 | Jewish Creation | 193 | | Ch. 7 | Powerful Insignificance | 215 | | Ch. 8 | Chaplinesque, or Villon Again: In Place of an Ending | 279 | | Appendix | 305 | | Notes | 313 | | Index | 359 | Return to Book Description File created: 11/5/2009 |