Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Quasi-Statistical
Chapter 1. Jews in Chaliapin’s Childhood
Chapter 2. Chaliapin and his Jewish Impresarios
Chapter 3. Singing with the Jews
Chapter 4. Working with “Non-Singing” Jews
Chapter 5. Bonds with Jewish and Russian Painters and Sculptors
Chapter 6. Bonds with Russian and Jewish Literati
Chapter 7. Bonds with Jewish Musicians
Chapter 8. Chaliapin and his Jewish Accompanists
Chapter 9. Other Jewish Connections
Part Two: Judeophilia?
Chapter 10. “Dear Isaychik – My Gray Bunny!”
Chapter 11. Chaliapin and Mikhail Volkenstein
Chapter 12. Chaliapin the Zionist
References
Personalia
Illustration Plates
Index of Names