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Index Aaron and Gershon (printers), 40 Abdulmecid (alt. Abdulmajid), Sultan, 317 Abraham ben Hayyim of Lublin, 232 Abraham Gershon of Kutov, 83 Abraham Jacob of Sadegura, 153 Abraham of Ciechanów, 118, 120, 123 Abraham of Polotzk to Vitebsk, 84 Abraham of Turisk, 132 Abraham Yaakov of Czortkow, 154 Abraham Yaakov of Sadegura, 132, 153, 154 Abraham Yoski of Lissa, 232 Abraham, biblical, 21, 72, 109, 303, 378 Accra, 257 acculturation, vii, viii, ix, 106, 109, 122–23, 383 Achan, biblical, 292 Adam Kadmon (primordial Man), 259, 286 Adam, biblical, 187, 188, 250, 285, 307n5, 310, 311, 312, 320, 322–28 Adamovka village, 338 Aharon of Chernobyl, 139 Aharon of Karlin, 77 Aix-la-Chappelle (Aachen), 261, 262 alchemy,14,27–28,29–32,47n28,51n78,52n87 Aleksandr L’vov, 311 Aleksandropol’ district, 317 aliyah (immigration to Israel), 361 All Saints’ Day, 58, 60 All Souls’ Day, 59, 60 Allemano, Yohanan, 30 Alter, Isaac Meir of Ger (Góra Kalwaria, the Gerer rebbe), 107 Amsterdam, 17, 31, 230, 241, 255–58, 262, 263, 266–68, 272, 275n35, 277n78, 278n101 amulets, 15, 16, 18, 26, 231, 262, 264 angels, 321–27 An-ski, S., 58, 63, 381, 387, 388n13, 391n83 antinomianism, 222, 225, 258, 271–72, 285, 293. See also Sexuality antisemitism, 2 anti-Trinitarianism, 367 apikorsut (irreligion), 143, 226 apocalypticism, 382 Armenia, 366 Armitage, Catherine, 260 Armitage, Thomas, 251, 253 Arndt, Johann, 314 Aronson, Hayim, 41 Ashkenazi, Isaac Luria, 81 Ashkenazi, Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov (Hakham Tzvi), 241 Asiatic Brethren, 270, 271 assimilation, vii, 106, 265, 383 Astrakhan Province, 376, 379–80, 385n5 astrology, 23, 24, 27–28, 42, 47n28, 52n88, 230, 236, 246n39 Augustus III, King, 3 Avar rebels, 317 Avicenna, 31 Avimelekh, biblical, 109 Avvakum, Archpriest, 312 ba‘alei shem, 5, 14–18, 23, 26, 32, 34–43 Balaban, Gerasim, 338 Baltic Sea, 255 Bar, 33 Bariatinskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 318 Basovsky, Ivan, 342 Batalden, Stephen, 372 Beelzebul, 321- 322, 326 Behush (Buhusi, Romania), 151 Belaia Tserkov, 135, 139, 163n39 Belarus, 19, 21, 41, 57, 60, 361 Belova, Olga, 13, 23 Belzer, Nisi, 139–43 Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 316 Bentivoglio, Cardinal Francisco, 241- 242 Benzelius, Eric (the Younger), 253–55, 258, 261, 263, 274n20 Ber of Radoszyce, 107, 117 Berdichev (Berdyczów), 58 Bessarabia, 336–37, 346–47, 354n10, 362, 364 398 Index Bethlehem, 303 Biala, 110 Biłgoraj, 56 Black Virgin of Cze$stochowa, 294, 307n18 black wedding (Shvartse khasene), ix, 5, 55, 57–60, 62–65 Blake, William, 7, 250, 253, 259, 265, 269, 279n122, 394 blood libel, 232, 234 Boas: Abraham, 253; brothers, 278n100; Simon, 253; Tobias, 253, 261–62, 266 Böhler, Peter, 253, 259, 266, 268 Boethusians, 244 Boguslav, 135 Bonus, Doctor Joseph, 17 Borenthius, Helicarnathus (Michał Se$dziwój), 30 Botosani, 83 bracchium saeculare, 233 Breshko-Breshkovskaia, E., 339 Brockmer, Johann, 253, 256, 267, 275n35 Brody, 33, 36, 149–50, 152–53, 167n108, 233 Brody Synagogue in Odessa, 139, 164 Brothers and Sisters, the, 282, 289, 291. See also Frankism Brünn (Brno), 3, 283, 300–301, 304 Brześć, 231 Buber, Martin, 77, 213n128 Bucharest, 87 Bukovina, 71, 73, 85, 91, 100n47, 150, 155 Bulgakov, Fedor Osipovich (David, the son of Jesse), 315–16 Bundism, 109 Burgmann, Johann Gustav, 253, 266–67, 269, 272, 275n35, 278n101 Buzaglo, Joseph La Paz, 253, 261–62 Cagliostro, Count Alessandro, 253, 269–70 calendar, 20, 27–28, 42, 50n65, 311, 353n5 Callenberg, Johann Heinrich, 175, 177 Cantemir, Prince Dimitrie, 83–84, 99–100n42 cantor, 139, 375, 376 Capernaum, 186 Cardoso, Abraham Miguel, 187–88, 235 Carlebach, Elisheva, 172, 176 Carpathian Mountains, 6, 79–81, 84, 99n37 Caucasia, 315; South Caucasia, 369, 385n2 cemetery, 5, 55–60, 63, 67, 126, 135, 162n18, 360 Charles XII of Sweden, 253–255, 274n17 Chechen rebels, 317 Chernigov province, 337 Chernobyl dynasty, 132, 155 Chigirin conspiracy, 339 childbirth, 15 Chmielnicki uprising (1648), 57 Christian dissenters, 2, 254, 334; Dukhobors, 1, 309, 314–15, 354n8, 360, 382; “flagellants” (khlysty), 1, 360; Jumpers (including Molokan-Jumpers), 1, 314, 316–19, 361; 326, 328, 330n16, 335, 339, 360, 366–67, 380, 382, 385n1, 389; Raskol’niki (“schismatics”), 368; Subbotniks (Sabbatarians), 1, 7, 310–11, 328, 335–36, 359–61, 366–84, 389; Stundists, 1, 7, 335–44, 347–58 Christianity, ix, 3–7, 42, 86, 103n65, 108, 171–77, 184, 187–89, 208n65, 212n119, 222–23, 227, 230, 235–36, 238–45, 252–55, 258, 264, 267, 271–72, 302, 309, 310–15, 327–28, 334, 338, 340, 344–49, 351, 360–61, 366...

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