Moses Hirschel and Enlightenment Breslau: A City and its Jews in the Late Eighteenth Century

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Jewish Historiography
	Why Is Typical European Jewish Historiography Problematic?
		The Structural Problem
		The Epistemological Problem
		“Essentialist” Jewish Identity Versus Plurality in Jewish Communities in the Eighteenth Century
	Jews and Their Identities
		The Concept of Hybrid Identity
		Jewish Identity in Central Europe
		Hybridised Individuals and Agency
		Theory of Agency
	Moses Hirschel: Agency, Identity and Influence
Chapter 3: Socio-Ethnic History of Breslau
	History of Breslau, 1740–1818
		Breslau (1740–1786)
		Breslau (1787–1818)
	Breslau’s History and the Historiographical Problem
Chapter 4: Moses Hirschel: A Critical Biography
	Hirschel’s Early Life
		Hirschel’s Partnership with Joseph Kausch
	Popular Enlightenment
	Hirschel’s Popular Enlightenment Works
		Hirschel on Chess
		Early Marriage
		Kuh Biography
		Hirschel and Patriotism
		Hirschel and Catholicism in Silesia
	Hirschel’s Personal and Professional Life
Chapter 5: Hirschel and the Orthodoxy
	Hirschel and the Class Question
		The Connexion Between Religious Authority and Corporate Power
		Rabbinic Abuse of Financial Authority in Breslau
	The Rabbinical Elite and Jewish Emancipation
		Despotic Discipline
		Heterogeneity and Diaspora
		The Ashkenazi Orthodoxy and Jewish Traditions
		The Early Burial Controversies in Prussia
		The Early Burial Controversy in Breslau
		Halacha, Minhag and Jurisprudence
Chapter 6: Jewish Rights, Human Rights and Anti-Semitism
	Anti-Semitism in Prussia
		The 1790 Jewish Regulations for Breslau and Their Contexts
			The Authors of the Regulations
			The 1790s Regulations in Detail: The Preamble
			“Corrupt Jews” and Their Moral Transformation: The New Regulations
			Cultural Imposition or Beneficent Transformation?
		Innovative Aspects of the 1790s Legislation in the Context of General Prussian Reform
			Jews, Day Labourers and the Prussian Vagabond Crisis
		The Transformation of Jews by Means of Occupational Transformation
	Hirschel’s Response to Contemporary Anti-Semitism
		Preface and Introduction
		Hirschel and Human Rights
Chapter 7: Haskalah and Enlightenment in Silesia
	Enlightenment in Central Europe
		What Is Enlightenment?
		How Did Enlightenment Work?
		What Was the German Enlightenment?
			The “Late Enlightenment” in the German-Speaking Lands
			The Translated Enlightenment Becomes the German Enlightenment
	What Is Haskalah and Who Were Maskilim?
		Enlightenment as Modernisation or Secularisation for Jews?
		Breslau: On the Periphery of Enlightenment but a Centre of Haskalah?
	Enlightenment in Breslau
		Enlightenment Institutions and Personalities in Breslau
		School Reform in Silesia
			Catholic School Reform in Silesia and Prussia
			Jews and Protestants: The Maskilim and School Reform
		The Jewish Wilhelm-Schule in Breslau
			The Industrial School for Girls in Breslau
		The Gesellschaft der Brüder
		Jewish and “Christian” Maskilim in Breslau
		Other Jewish Enlighteners
Chapter 8: Final Remarks
Bibliography
	Archives
	Berlin
	Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin – GStA PK
	Breslau
	Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wroclawiu
	Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
	Warsaw
	Central Jewish Library
	Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie
	Weimar
	Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, GSA
	Moses Hirschel’s Works
	General Works
Index