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Introduction | 9 | |
1. | Politics and Community in Eastern Europe | 11 |
Introduction | 11 | |
Life Under the Czars | 12 | |
The Pale of Settlement | 12 | |
Nicholas I | 13 | |
Alexander II | 15 | |
The May Laws | 16 | |
The Bund: A Mass Jewish Socialist Movement | 18 | |
Nicholas II | 20 | |
Russian Revolution | 22 | |
Joseph Stalin | 24 | |
Nikita Khrushchev | 26 | |
Leonid Brezhnev and the Refuseniks | 26 | |
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union | 28 | |
Boris Yeltsin | 28 | |
Vladimir Putin | 28 | |
Summary | 29 | |
2. | Politics and Community in Western and Central Europe | 39 |
Introduction | 39 | |
France | 39 | |
On the Eve of the Revolution | 39 | |
Jews on the Eve of the Revolution | 40 | |
The French Revolution | 41 | |
Emancipation of French Jews | 42 | |
The Reign of Terror | 43 | |
Assembly of Jewish Notables | 43 | |
The Great Sanhedrin | 44 | |
Napoleon's Decrees | 44 | |
Fall of Napoleon | 45 | |
Congress of Vienna | 45 | |
Germany | 46 | |
Habsburg Empire | 47 | |
Metternich | 48 | |
1848 Revolutions | 49 | |
Emancipation of the Jews | 49 | |
England | 50 | |
Summary | 52 | |
3. | Cultural and Intellectual History | 67 |
Introduction | 67 | |
Englightenment and the Jews: Western Europe | 67 | |
Englightenment and the Jews: Eastern Europe | 69 | |
Yiddish Literature | 72 | |
The Musar Movement | 73 | |
Talmud Study and the Yeshivot | 75 | |
Jewish Philosophy | 78 | |
Biblical Exegesis | 78 | |
Kabbalah and Jewish Ethics | 79 | |
Summary | 79 | |
4. | Religious Reform | 91 |
Introduction | 91 | |
Reform Judaism | 91 | |
Reform Judaism in America | 93 | |
Positive-Historical Judaism: Zechariah Frankel | 96 | |
Conservative Judaism | 97 | |
Reconstructionist Judaism | 101 | |
Neo-Orthodoxy: Samson Raphael Hirsch | 102 | |
Orthodox Judaism in America | 105 | |
Summary | 107 | |
5. | Hasidism | 121 |
Introduction | 121 | |
Turning Point in Poland | 121 | |
The Ba'al Shem Tov | 121 | |
Students of the Ba'al Shem Tov | 122 | |
The Zaddik | 122 | |
Devekut | 123 | |
Opposition to Hasidism | 123 | |
Hasidism in the 19th and 20th Centuries | 124 | |
Summary | 128 | |
6. | Holocaust | 133 |
The Weimar Republic | 133 | |
Hitler's Rise to Power | 133 | |
Boycott | 135 | |
Anti-Jewish Legislation | 136 | |
The Nuremberg Laws | 137 | |
Emigration | 138 | |
More Anti-Jewish Activity | 139 | |
Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") | 140 | |
Invasion of Poland | 141 | |
Ghettos | 142 | |
Judenrat | 143 | |
Death Camps | 145 | |
Summary | 148 | |
7. | Zionism | 161 |
Forerunners of Zionism | 161 | |
Theodor Herzl | 162 | |
First Zionist Congress | 164 | |
Labor Zionism | 165 | |
Religious Zionism | 166 | |
Balfour Declaration | 166 | |
Arab Nationalism | 167 | |
World War II | 169 | |
End of British Mandate | 170 | |
Summary | 171 | |
8. | The State of Israel | 183 |
Establishment of the State | 183 | |
Declaration of Independence | 183 | |
War of Independence | 183 | |
Formation of Government | 184 | |
The Arab-Israeli Conflict | 186 | |
Peace Treaties | ||
Israel and Egypt | 192 | |
Israel and the PLO--the Oslo Accords | 193 | |
Israel and Jordan | 194 | |
Summary | 195 | |
9. | The Jews in America | 207 |
Early Settlement | 207 | |
Jews and the American Revolution | 208 | |
German Jewry in America | 208 | |
East European Immigration | 210 | |
World War I and the Russian Revolution | 215 | |
The Great Depression | 218 | |
President Roosevelt and the New Deal | 218 | |
Anti-Semitism in the Roosevelt Years | 219 | |
America and the Holocaust | 219 | |
Jews in America in the 1950s | 220 | |
Anti-Semitism in the 1950s | 221 | |
Jews in America in the 1960s | 222 | |
Jews and the Civil Rights Movement | 223 | |
Jews in America in the 1970s and 1980s | 224 | |
Jews in America From 1990 to 2003 | 225 | |
Summary | 227 | |
10. | The Jews in Canada | 255 |
Early Settlement | 255 | |
Anti-Semitism before World War II | 257 | |
Canada and the Holocaust | 257 | |
Anti-Semitism after World War II | 257 | |
Synagogues | 258 | |
Jewish Education | 259 | |
Major Jewish Organizations | 260 | |
Jews in Canadian Politics | 261 | |
Jews in the Judiciary | 262 | |
Summary | 262 | |
Bibliography | 271 | |
Index | 275 |
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