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  PDF  From the beginning until the death of Alexander I.
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   Besitznachweis
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   Deckblatt
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   Titelblatt
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   Copyright
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   Translator's Preface
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   Contents
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  Chapter I. The Jewish Diaspora in Eastern Europe
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   1. The Jewish Settlements on the Shores of the Black Sea.
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   2. The Kingdom of the Khazars
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   3. The Jews in the Early Russian Principalities and in the Tataric Khanate of the Crimea
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  Chapter II. The Jewish Colonies in Poland and Lithuania
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   1. The Immigration from Western Europe during the Period of the Crusades
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   2. The Charter of Prince Boleslav and the Canons of the Church
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   3. Rise of Polish Jewry under Casimir the Great
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   4. Polish Jewry during the Reign of Yaghello
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   5. The Jews of Lithuania during the Reign of Vitovt
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   6. The Conflict between Royalty and Clergy under Casimir IV. and His Sons
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  Chapter III. The Autonomous Center in Poland at its Zenith (1501 - 1648)
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   1. Social and Economic Conditions
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   2. The Liberal Régime of Sigismund I.
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   3. Liberalism and Reaction in the Reigns of Sigismund Augustus and Stephen Batory
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   4. Shlaktha and Royalty in the Reigns of Sigismund III. and Vladislav IV.
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  Chapter IV. The Inner Life of Polish at its Zenith
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   1. Kahal Autonomy and the Jewish Diets
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   2. The Instruction of the Young
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   3. The High-Water Mark of Rabbinic Learning
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   4. Secular Sciences, Philosophy, Cabala, and Apologetics
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  Chapter V. The Autonomous Center in Poland during its Decline (1648 - 1772)
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   1. Economic and National Antagonism in the Ukraina
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   2. The Pogroms and Massacres of 1648 - 1649
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   3. The Russian and Swedish Invasions (1654 - 1658)
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   4. The Restoration (1658 - 1697)
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   5. Social and Political Dissolution
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   6. A Frenzy of Blood Accusations
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   7. The Massacres of Uman and the First Partition of Poland
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  Chapter VI. The Inner Life of Polish during the Period of Decline
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   1. Jewish Self-Government
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   2. Rabbinical and Mystical Literature
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   3. The Sabbatian Movement
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   4. The Frankist Sect
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   5. The Rise of Hasidim and Israel Baal-Shem-Tob
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   6. The Hasidic Propaganda and the Growth of Tzaddikism
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   7. Rabbinism, Hasidism, and the Forerunners of Enlightenment
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  Chapter VII. The Russian Quarantine against Jews (till 1772)
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   1. The Anti-Jewish Attitude of Muscovy during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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   2. The Jews under Peter I. and His Successors
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   3. Elizabethan Petrovna and the First Years of Catherine II.
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  Chapter VIII. Polish Jewry during the Period of the Partitions
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   1. The Jews of Poland after the First Partition
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   2. The Period of the Quadrennial Diet (1788-1791)
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   3. The Last Two Partitions and Berek Yoselovich
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   4. The Duchy of Warsaw and the Reaction under Napoleon
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  Chapter IX. The Beginnings of the Russian Régime
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   1. The Jewish Policy of Catherine II. (1772-1796)
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   2. Jewish Legislative Schemes during the Reign of Paul I.
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   3. Dyerzhavin's "Opinion" on the Jewish Problem
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  Chapter X. The "Enlightened Absolutism" of Alexander I.
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   1. "The Committee for the Amelioration of the Jews"
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   2. The "Jewish Constitution" of 1804
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   3. The Projected Expulsion from the Villages
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   4. The Patriotic Attitude of Russian Jewry during the War of 1812
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   5. Economic and Agricultural Experiments
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  Chapter XI. The Inner Life of Russian Jewry during the Period of "Enlightened Absolutism"
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   1. Kahal Autonomy and City Government
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   2. The Hasidic Schism and the Intervention of the Government
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   3. Rabbinism, Hasidism, and Enlightenend "Berlinerdom"
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  Chapter XII. The Last Years of Alexander I.
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   1. "The Deputation of the Jewish People"
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   2. Christianizing Endeavors
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   3. "Judaizing" Sects in Russia
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   4. Recrudescence of Anti-Jewish Legislation
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   5. The Russian Revolutionaries and the Jews
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  PDF  From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III.
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   Besitznachweis
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   Translator's Preface
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   Contents
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  Chapter XIII. The Military Despotism of Nicholas I.
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   1. Military Service as a Means of De-Judaization
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   2. The Recruiting Ukase of 1827 and Juvenile Conscription
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   3. Military Martyrdom
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   4. The Policy of Expulsions
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   5. The Codification of Jewish Disabilities
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   6. The Russian Censorship and Conversionist Endeavors
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  Chapter XIV. Compulsory Enlightenment and Increased Oppression
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   1. Enlightenment as a Means of Assimilation
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   2. Uvarov and Lilienthal
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   3. The Abolition of Jewish Autonomy and Renewed Persecutions
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   4. Intercession of Western European Jewry
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   5. The Economic Plight of Russian Jewry and Agricultural Experiments
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   6. The Ritual Murder Trial of Velizh
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   7. The Mstislavl Affair
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  Chapter XV. The Jews in the Kingdom of Poland
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   1. Plans of Jewish Emancipation
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   2. Political Reaction and Literary Anti-Semitism
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   3. Assimilationist Tendencies Among the Jews of Poland
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   4. The Jews and the Polish Insurrection of 1831
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  Chapter XVI. The Inner Life of Russian Jewry during the Period of Military Despotism
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   1. Tne Uncompromising Attitude of Rabbinism
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   2. The Stagnation of Hasidism
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   3. The Russian Mendeslssohn (Isaac Baer Levinsohn)
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   4. The Rise of Neo-Hebraic Culture
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   5. The Jews and the Russian People
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  Chapter XVII. The Last Years of Nicholas I.
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   1. The "Assortment" of the Jews.
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   2. Compulsory Assimilation.
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   3. New Conscription Horrors.
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   4. The Ritual Murder Trial of Saratov.
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  Chapter XVIII. The Era of Reforms under Alexander II.
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   1. The Abolition of Juvenile Conscription.
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   2. "Homoepathic" Emancipation and the Policiy of "Fusion".
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   3. The Extension of the Right of Residence.
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   4. Further Alleviations and Attempts at Russification.
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   5. The Jews and the Polish Insurrection of 1863.
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  Chapter XIX. The Reaction under Alexander II.
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   1. Change of Attitude Toward the Jewish Problem.
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   2. The Informer Jacob Brafman.
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   3. The Fight Against Jewish "Separatism".
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   4. The Drift Toward Oppression.
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  Chapter XX. The Inner Life of Russian Jewry during the Reign of Alexander II.
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   1. The Russification of the Jewish Intelligenzia.
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   2. The Society for the Diffusion of Enlightenment.
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   3. The Jewish Press.
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   4. The Jews and the Revolutionary Movement.
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   5. The Neo-Hebraic Renaissance.
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   6. The Harbinger of Jewish Nationalism (Perez Smolenskin).
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   7. Jewish Literature in the Russian Language.
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  Chapter XXI. The Accession of Alexander III. and the Inauguration of Pogroms
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   1. The Triumph of Autocracy.
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   2. The Initiation of the Pogrom Policy.
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   3. The Pogrom at Kiev.
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   4. Further Outbreaks in South Russia.
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  Chapter XXII. The Anti-Jewish Policies of Ignatyev
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   1. The Vacillating Attitude of the Authorities.
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   2. The Pogrom Panic and the Beginning of the Exodus.
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   3. The Gubernatorial Commissions.
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   4. The Spread of anti-Semitism.
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   5. The Pogrom at Warsaw.
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  Chapter XXXIII. New Measures of Oppression and Public Protests
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   1. The Despair of Russian Jewry.
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   2. The Voice of England and America.
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   3. The Problem of Emigration and the Pogrom at Balta.
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   4. The Conference of Jewish Notables at St. Petersburg.
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  Chapter XXIV. Legislative Pogroms
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   1. The "Temporary Rules" of May 3, 1882.
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   2. Abandonment of the Pogrom Policy.
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   3. Disabilities and Emigration.
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  Chapter XXV. Inner Upheavals
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   1. Disillusionment of the Intelligenzia and the National Revival.
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   2. Pinsker's "Autoemancipation".
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   3. Miscarried Religious Reforms.
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  Chapter XXVI. Increased Jewish Disabilities
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   1. The Pahlen Commission and New Schemes of Oppression.
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   2. Jewish Disabilities Outside the Pale.
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   3. Restrictions in Education and in the Legal Profession.
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   4. Discrimination in Military Service.
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  Chapter XXVII. Russian Reaction and Jewish Emigration
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   1. Aftermath of the Pogrom Policy.
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   2. The Conclusions of the Pahlen Commission.
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   3. The Triumph of Reaction.
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   4. American and Palestinian Emigration.
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  Chapter XXVIII. Judaeophobia Triumphant
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   1. Intensified Reaction.
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   2. Continued Harassing.
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   3. The Guildhall Meeting in London.
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   4. The Protest of America.
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  Chapter XXIX. The Expulsion from Moscow
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   1. Preparing the Blow.
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   2. The Horrors of Expulsion.
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   3. Effect of Protests.
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   4. Pogroms Interludes.
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  Chapter XXX. Baron Hirsch's Emigration Scheme and unrelieved Suffering
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   1. Negotiations With the Russian Government.
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   2. The Jewish Colonization Association and Collapse of the Argentinian Scheme.
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   3. Continued Humiliations and Death of Alexander III.
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  Chapter XXXI. The Accession of Nicholas II.
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   1. Continued Policy of Oppression.
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   2. The Martyrdom of the Moscow Community.
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   3. Restrictions in the Right of Residence.
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   4. The Economic Collapse of Russian Jewry.
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   5. Professional and Educational Restrictions.
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   6. Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pogroms.
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  Chapter XXXII. The National Awakening.
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   1. The Rise of Political Zionism.
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   2. Spritual Zionism, or Ahad-Ha'amism.
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   3. Spiritual Nationalism, or National-Cultural Autonomism.
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   4. The Jewish Socialistic Movement.
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   5. The Revival of Jewish Letters.
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  Chapter XXXIII. The Kishinev Massacre.
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   1. Pogroms as a Counter-Revolutionary Measure.
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   2. The Organized Kishinev Butchery.
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   3. Echoes of the Kishinev Tragedy.
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   4. Doctor Herzl's Visit to Russia.
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  Chapter XXXIV. Continued Pogroms and the Russo-Japanese War.
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   1. The Pogrom at Homel and the Jewish Self-Defence.
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   2. The Kishinev Massacre at the Bar of Russian Justice.
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   3. The Jews in the Russo-Japanese War.
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   4. The "Political Spring".
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   5. The Homel Pogrom Before the Russian Courts.
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  Chapter XXXV. The Revolution of 1905 and the Fight for Emancipation.
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   1. The Jew in the Revolutionary Movement.
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   2. The Struggle for Equal Rights.
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   3. The "Black Hundred" and the "Patriotic" Pogroms.
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   4. The Jewish Franchise.
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  Chapter XXXVI. The Counter-Revolution and the October Massacres.
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   1. The Fiendish Designs of the "Black Hundred".
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   2. The Russian St. Barholomew Night.
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   3. The Undaunted Struggle for Equal Rights.
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   4. The Jewish Question Before the First Duma.
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   5. The Spread of Anarchy and the Second Duma.
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  Chapter XXXVII. External Oppression and Internal Consolidation.
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   1. The New Alignments Within Russian Jewry.
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   2. The Triumph of the "Black Hundred".
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   3. The Third, or Black, Duma.
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   4. New Jewish Disabilities.
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   5. The Spiritual Revival of the Russian Jewry.
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   Russian Jewry since 1911.
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   Bibliography.
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   Index.