History of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, Vol. I: From the Beginning Until the Death of Alexander I (1825)

Front Matter......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Translator's Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 12
1. THE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS ON THE SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA......Page 16
2. THE KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS......Page 22
3. THE JEWS IN THE EARLY RUSSIAN PRINCIPALITIES AND IN THE TATARIC KHANATE OF THE CRIMEA......Page 32
1. THE IMMIGRATION FROM WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE CRUSADES......Page 42
2. THE CHARTER OF PRINCE BOLESLAV AND THE CANONS OF THE CHURCH......Page 46
3. RISE OF POLISH JEWRY UNDER CASIMIR THE GREAT......Page 53
4. POLISH JEWRY DURING THE REIGN OF YAGHELLO......Page 57
5. THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA DURING THE REIGN OF VITOVT......Page 61
6. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ROYALTY AND CLERGY UNDER CASIMIR IV. AND HIS SONS......Page 64
1. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS......Page 69
2. THE LIBERAL RÉGIME OF SIGISMUND I.......Page 73
3. LIBERALISM AND REACTION IN THE REIGNS OF SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS AND STEPHEN BATORY......Page 86
4. SHLAKHTA AND ROYALTY IN THE REIGNS OF SIGISMUND III. AND VLADISLAV IV.......Page 94
1. KAHAL AUTONOMY AND THE JEWISH DIETS......Page 106
2. THE INSTRUCTION OF THE YOUNG......Page 117
3. THE HIGH-WATER MARK OF RABBINIC LEARNING......Page 124
4. SECULAR SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY, CABALA, AND APOLOGETICS......Page 134
1. ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL ANTAGONISM IN THE UKRAINA......Page 142
2. THE POGROMS AND MASSACRES OF 1648–1649......Page 147
3. THE RUSSIAN AND SWEDISH INVASIONS (1654–1658)......Page 156
4. THE RESTORATION (1658–1697)......Page 161
5. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DISSOLUTION......Page 170
6. A FRENZY OF BLOOD ACCUSATIONS......Page 175
7. THE MASSACRE OF UMAN AND THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND......Page 183
1. JEWISH SELF-GOVERNMENT......Page 191
2. RABBINICAL AND MYSTICAL LITERATURE......Page 201
3. THE SABBATIAN MOVEMENT......Page 207
4. THE FRANKIST SECT......Page 214
5. THE RISE OF HASIDISM AND ISRAEL BAAL-SHEM-TOB......Page 223
6. THE HASIDIC PROPAGANDA AND THE GROWTH OF TZADDIKISM......Page 232
7. RABBINISM, HASIDISM, AND THE FORERUNNERS OF ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 238
1. THE ANTI-JEWISH ATTITUDE OF MUSCOVY DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 245
2. THE JEWS UNDER PETER I. AND HIS SUCCESSORS......Page 249
3. ELIZABETH PETROVNA AND THE FIRST YEARS OF CATHERINE II.......Page 257
1. THE JEWS OF POLAND AFTER THE FIRST PARTITION......Page 265
2. THE PERIOD OF THE QUADRENNIAL DIET (1788–1791)......Page 281
3. THE LAST TWO PARTITIONS AND BEREK YOSELOVICH......Page 294
4. THE DUCHY OF WARSAW AND THE REACTION UNDER NAPOLEON......Page 301
1. THE JEWISH POLICY OF CATHERINE II. (1772–1796)......Page 309
2. JEWISH LEGISLATIVE SCHEMES DURING THE REIGN OF PAUL I.......Page 324
3. DYERZHAVIN'S "OPINION" ON THE JEWISH PROBLEM......Page 331
1. "THE COMMITTEE FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE JEWS."......Page 338
2. THE "JEWISH CONSTITUTION" OF 1804......Page 345
3. THE PROJECTED EXPULSION FROM THE VILLAGES......Page 348
4. THE PATRIOTIC ATTITUDE OF RUSSIAN JEWRY DURING THE WAR OF 1812......Page 358
5. ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS......Page 362
1. KAHAL AUTONOMY AND CITY GOVERNMENT......Page 369
2. THE HASIDIC SCHISM AND THE INTERVENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT......Page 374
3. RABBINISM, HASIDISM, AND ENLIGHTENED "BERLINERDOM"......Page 382
1. "THE DEPUTATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE"......Page 393
2. CHRISTIANIZING ENDEAVORS......Page 399
3. "JUDAIZING" SECTS IN RUSSIA......Page 404
4. RECRUDESCENCE OF ANTI-JEWISH LEGISLATION......Page 406
5. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE JEWS......Page 412