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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Translation and Romanization -- 1. The World of the Brivnshteler -- Encountering Modernity -- The Brivnshteler and Traditional Education -- The Brivnshteler and the History of Model Letters -- Yiddish Language, Yiddish Publishing, and the Brivnshteler -- The Brivnshteler and Yiddish Literature -- What Makes the Brivnshteler Jewish? -- 2. From the Pages of Brivnshtelers -- Modernity and Mobility -- Parents and Children: Russia -- Parents and Children: America -- Courtship and Marriage: Russia -- Courtship and Marriage: America -- Business -- Judaism and Jewish Identity -- Imagining America -- 3. Beyond Letters -- Bibliography -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brivnshtelers -- Other Sources -- Index.