History Of The Jews In Russia & Poland, Volume I of III

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE JEWISH DIASPORA IN EASTERN EUROPE
1. The Jewish Settlements on the Shores of the Black Sea 13
2. The Kingdom of the Khazars 19
3. The Jews in the Early Russian Principalities
and in the Tataric Khanate of the Crimea 29

II. THE JEWISH COLONIES IN POLAND AND LITHUANIA
1. The Immigration from Western Europe during
the Period of the Crusades 39
2. The Charter of Prince Boleslav and the Canons
of the Church 43
3. Rise of Polish Jewry under Casimir the Great 50
4. Polish Jewry during the Reign of Yaghello 54
5. The Jews of Lithuania during the Reign of Vitovt 58
6. The Conflict between Royalty and Clergy under
Casimir IV. and His Sons 61

III. THE AUTONOMOUS CENTER IN POLAND AT ITS ZENITH (1501-1648)
1. Social and Economic Conditions 66
2. The Liberal Régime of Sigismund I. 70
3. Liberalism and Reaction in the Reigns of Sigismund
Augustus and Stephen Batory 83
4. Shlakhta and Royalty in the Reigns of Sigismund
III. and Vladislav IV. 91

IV. THE INNER LIFE OF POLISH JEWRY AT ITS ZENITH
1. Kahal Autonomy and the Jewish Diets 103
2. The Instruction of the Young 114
3. The High-Water Mark of Rabbinic Learning 121
4. Secular Sciences, Philosophy, Cabala, and Apologetics 131

V. THE AUTONOMOUS CENTER IN POLAND DURING ITS DECLINE (1648-1772)
1. Economic and National Antagonism in the Ukraina 139
2. The Pogroms and Massacres of 1648-1649 144
3. The Russian and Swedish Invasions (1654-1658) 153
4. The Restoration (1658-1697) 158
5. Social and Political Dissolution 167
6. A Frenzy of Blood Accusations 172
7. The Massacre of Uman and the First Partition of Poland 180

VI. THE INNER LIFE OF POLISH JEWRY DURING THE PERIOD OF DECLINE
1. Jewish Self-Government 188
2. Rabbinical and Mystical Literature 198
3. The Sabbatian Movement 204
4. The Frankist Sect 211
5. The Rise of Hasidism and Israel Baal-Shem-Tob 220
6. The Hasidic Propaganda and the Growth of Tzaddikism 229
7. Rabbinism, Hasidism, and the Forerunners of Enlightenment 235

VII. THE RUSSIAN QUARANTINE AGAINST JEWS (TILL 1772)
1. The Anti-Jewish Attitude of Muscovy during the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 242
2. The Jews under Peter I. and His Successors 246
3. Elizabeth Petrovna and the First Years of Catherine II. 254

VIII. POLISH JEWRY DURING THE PERIOD OF THE PARTITIONS
1. The Jews of Poland after the First Partition 262
2. The Period of the Quadrennial Diet (1788-1791) 278
3. The Last Two Partitions and Berek Yoselo 291
4. The Duchy of Warsaw and the Reaction under Napoleon 298

IX. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RUSSIAN RÉGIME
1. The Jewish Policy of Catherine II. (1772-1796) 306
2. Jewish Legislative Schemes during the Reign of Paul I. 321
3. Dyerzhavin's "Opinion" on the Jewish Problem 328

X. THE "ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM" OF ALEXANDER I.
1. "The Committee for the Amelioration of the Jews" 335
2. The "Jewish Constitution" of 1804 342
3. The Projected Expulsion from the Villages 345
4. The Patriotic Attitude of Russian Jewry during
the War of 1812 355
5. Economic and Agricultural Experiments 359

XI. THE INNER LIFE OF RUSSIAN JEWRY DURING THE PERIOD
OF "ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM"
1. Kahal Autonomy and City Government 366
2. The Hasidic Schism and the Intervention of the Government 371
3. Rabbinism, Hasidism, and Enlightened "Berlinerdom" 379

XII. THE LAST YEARS OF ALEXANDER I.
1. "The Deputation of the Jewish People" 390
2. Christianizing Endeavors 396

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