| Maps | 2 | |
| Key to Maps | 4 | |
| Introduction: The World of East European Jewry | 5 | |
| 1 | The Proselytizer: Zusya of Annopol | 93 |
| 2 | A Hasid Prays for Napoleon: Menahem Mendel of Rymanow | 94 |
| 3 | Hasid of Inwardness: Simha Bunam | 96 |
| How To Serve God: Four Tales | 97 | |
| He Walked Humbly | 99 | |
| 4 | Rebbe of Mystery: Menahem Mendel of Kotsk | 100 |
| I Am Not a God: A Hasidic Tale | 101 | |
| Menahem Mendel's Hasidic Mode | 103 | |
| 5 | The Rebbe of Lubavich Bests Count Uvarov | 107 |
| 6 | I Served Haskala in Russia | 113 |
| 7 | Rebel and Penitent: Moses Leib Lilienblum | 119 |
| The Sins of My Youth | 120 | |
| He was Called Lilienblum | 130 | |
| 8 | Lion of Poets, Pilot of Reform: Judah Leib Gordon | 132 |
| An Entry in My Diary | 133 | |
| I Meet the Mountain Lion | 135 | |
| 9 | A Pilgrimage to Peretz Smolenskin | 137 |
| 10 | My Near-Conversion | 145 |
| 11 | My Educational Mission in Russia | 148 |
| 12 | From Shtetl to the Capital | 154 |
| 13 | Memoirs of a Grandmother | 160 |
| 14 | Truth and Legend About Israel Salanter | 171 |
| 15 | The Old Man of Slobodka | 179 |
| 16 | In the Service of Isaac Elhanan Spektor | 186 |
| 17 | Upholder of the Faith: The Rebbe of Belz | 192 |
| 18 | The Golden Dynasty: Rebbe of Sadeger | 195 |
| 19 | The Two Lights of My Life | 200 |
| 20 | Mother of the Beth Jacob Schools | 206 |
| 21 | When Hasidim of Ger Became Newsmen | 210 |
| 22 | From Freethinker to Believer | 213 |
| 23 | On the Death of Nahman Krochmal | 225 |
| 24 | Under the Sign of Historicism | 232 |
| 25 | When Lawyers Studied History | 242 |
| 26 | My Father, Baron David | 248 |
| 27 | How I Became a Yiddish Linguist | 257 |
| 28 | Balance Sheet of a Jewish Historian | 263 |
| 29 | Notes for My Literary Biography | 273 |
| 30 | I Become a Hebrew Writer | 281 |
| 31 | Isaac Leibush Peretz As We Knew Him | 286 |
| Master of a Literary Generation | 286 | |
| Peretz at Home | 297 | |
| 32 | Between Two Worlds: S. Ansky | 305 |
| I Enlighten a Shtetl | 306 | |
| A Half Year with Ansky | 311 | |
| 33 | Torments of Berdichevski's Last Days | 313 |
| 34 | Visiting Goldfaden, Father of the Yiddish Stage | 321 |
| 35 | Joel Engel, Champion of Jewish Music | 327 |
| 36 | What Is a Jewish Artist? | 331 |
| 37 | Daniel Chwolson: A Christian Jew | 335 |
| 38 | I Confess to Dostoevsky | 338 |
| 39 | Jan Bloch: The Loyal Convert | 344 |
| 40 | Henri Bergson's Old-Warsaw Lineage | 349 |
| 41 | Neither Pole Nor Jew | 360 |
| 42 | One of the People: Ahad Ha'am | 367 |
| A Few Facts of My Life | 367 | |
| The Most Important Person in My Life | 369 | |
| 43 | My Early Days | 375 |
| 44 | Defenders of the City | 383 |
| 45 | A Mind of My Own | 388 |
| 46 | Memoirs by My Typewriter | 394 |
| 47 | Socialist Jews Confront the Pogroms | 405 |
| 48 | The Jewish Factor in My Socialism | 411 |
| 49 | When Yiddish Literature Became Socialist | 422 |
| 50 | The Youth of a Bundist | 426 |
| 51 | From Pole to Jew | 435 |
| 52 | A Social Democrat Only | 441 |
| 53 | Memoirs of an Assassin | 448 |
| 54 | Jewish Rights Between Red and Black | 461 |
| 55 | A Good Russian - A Good Jew | 470 |
| 56 | In the First Russian Duma | 473 |
| 57 | Osias Thon: Statesman of Polish Jews | 482 |
| Sources and Acknowledgments | 493 | |
| Index | 497 |
