Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Happy Times? The First Century in the Modern Age I. 1700 1. Pictures from Married Life: Glikl the daughter of Leib between Hamburg and Metz 2. "Rise up and Succeed": Absolutism and Court Jews in Baroque Culture 3. Jews in the News: The Angry Masses, a Holy Society, and "Judaism Unmasked" 4. Between Enlightened Thought and an Imaginary Universe II. 1701-1725 5. "Everyone Wants to be Happy: Dangers and Amusements 6.

"Our Miserable Brethren": Jews in Time of War 7. Melancholy, Career, and Travels: Five Life Stories 8. Christians versus Jews: Bitter and Violent Relations 9. From London to Jerusalem: Confrontations and Disputes 10. The Challenge of Sabbateanism: The Storm over the "Hypocritical Serpent" 11. Competition over the Picture of the World: Witches and Human Knowledge III. 1725-1750 12. To Silence the "Fellow from Padua": Moses Haim Luzzatto and the Great Awakening 13.

Criticism and Ambition: From Gulliver to the Baal Shem Tov and Jew Süss 14. Contradictory Tendencies: Hostility, Violence, and "True Happiness" 15. "An Indelible Stain": War and Expulsion 16. A Vision of the Future: Ascent of the Soul, a Path for the Just, and a Teacher of the Perplexed 17. Toward Mid-Century: The Awakening of Shame Index.