This volume addresses various aspects of the long and tangled relationship between Jews and cosmopolitanism in East Central Europe. Starting with a discussion of early modern courtiers, the collection continues with analyses of the activities of Jewish revolutionaries, trans-national economic projects spearheaded by Jews, and the response of national politicians and provocateurs to Jewish involvement in cosmopolitan ideologies and movements over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

1. Cosmopolitanism: the end of Jewishness? Michael L. Miller and Scott Ury 2. Sabbatian Charlatans: the first Jewish cosmopolitans Pawel Maciejko 3. From liberal nationalism to cosmopolitan patriotism: Simon Deutsch and 1848ers in exile Michael L. Miller 4. Circulation and representation: Jews, department stores and cosmopolitan consumption in Germany, c.1880s - 1930s Paul Lerner 5. Jan Gottlieb Bloch: Polish cosmopolitism versus Jewish universalism Ela Bauer 6. Jews as cosmopolitans, foreigners, revolutionaries. Three images of the Jew in Polish and Russian nationalist ideology at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Semion Goldin 7. 'Russia's battle against the foreign': the anti-cosmopolitanism paradigm in Russian and Soviet ideology Frank Grüner 8. The 1919 Central European revolutions and the Judeo-Bolshevik myth Eliza Ablovatski 9. The unexpected cosmopolitans - Romania's Jewry facing the Communist system Raphael Vago 10. Imagining 'the Jews' in Stalinist Poland: nationalists or cosmopolites? Audrey Kichelewski 11. A jagged circle: from ethnicity to internationalism to cosmopolitanism - and back Zvi Gitelman 12. The other story: Israeli historians and Jewish 'universalism' Israel Bartal