Introduction: Jewish public culture -- The Jews of this world -- Libraries: from the study hall to the public library -- Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time -- Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture -- Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word -- Theater: the professionalization of performance -- Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences -- The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past -- Public history: imagining Russian Jews -- Conclusion: this world and the next.
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