I. THE JEWISH COLONEL ...7 // 1. A Biography Romantic and Unromantic ...9 // 2. Ridiculed and Humiliated ...15 // 3. The Military Glory of Israel and Košciuszko ...18 // 4. The Jewish Light Cavalry Regiment ...24 // 5. Did He Really Even Exist? ...33 // 6. A Knight’s Posthumous Glory ...36 // 7. Literary Metamorphoses and Motivations: The Prototype of Jankiel? ...40 // 8. Civil Rights ...46 // 9. Genealogy ...50 // 10. The First Since Ancient Times ...51 // 11. The Specter of Conspiracy ...52 // 12. Addendum on the Holocaust ...52 // 13. "Worthy" and “Unworthy" Death ...53 // 14. Lies ...59 // II. POLISH ANTISEMITISM AND ITS FOUNDING MYTH ...63 // Part One ...// 1. The Great Sanhedrin in Paris ...// 2. Early Warnings from Staszic ...// 3. A Moral Conflict ...// 4. The Specter of Elimination? ...// 5. The Threat of Revolt ...// 6. Christian Blood ...// 7. Myth and the Face ...// 8. The Image of the Eternal Enemy ...// Part Two ...// 1. A Wound on the Body of Poland ...// 2. Crusade ...// 3. A Single Miracle ...// 4. Theological-Ideological Phantasms // 5. Mickiewicz against Krasiňski ...// III. LEONARD’S EASTERN EYES ...117 // 1. Portraits ...119 // 2. A Body Oriental and Jewish ...121 // 3. Femininity ...124 // 6 // Tabic of Contents // 4. Something Lascivious ...126 // 5. Jewish Girls ...127 // 6. The Sexual Orgy ...129 // 7. Gold ...131 // 8. Satan ...132 // 9. Das Unheimliche and Magic ...133 // 10. The Fist or Money, or Violence ...135 // 11. The Thirst for Blood, Gold, Luxury, and Debauchery ...137 //
IV. THREE VARIATIONS ON THE JEWISH THEME IN MICKIEWICZ ...139 // 1. Wail in the Synagogue ...141 // 2. The Matrix of Frankism ...146 // 3. Moses, Christ and Towiaňski ...164 // V. MICKIEWICZ’S JEWISH LEGION ...177 // 1. Life is Somewhere Else ...179 // 2. The Precedence of Israel ...183 // 3. “Fate Has Tied Two Foreign Nations Closely Together” ...187 // 4. Politics and Mystical Illumination ...189 // 5. The Banner of the Maccabees ...191 // 6. Will the Jews leave Poland? ...195 // 7. The Legend of a Modern-day Moses ...198 // 8. A Precursor and an Heir ...201 // VI. THE IRONY OF CALEK PERECHODNIK ...205 // VII. KERTÉSZ: “EVEN IF I MAY SEEM TO BE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING QUITE DIFFERENT, // I AM STILL TALKING ABOUT AUSCHWITZ” ...223 // 1. Collisions ...225 // 2. Celan or Dante ...228 // 3. Black Sun ...232 // 4. Jew ...234 // 5. Muselmann ...236 // 6. Wife ...245 // 7. Mounting ...247