Preface to the third edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
Part 1: Harbingers Of Political And Economic Change:
1: How profitable the nation of the Jews are (1655) / Menasseh Ben Israel
2: Reasons for naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland (1714) / John Toland
3: Declaration protecting the interest of Jews residing in the Netherlands (July 13, 1657) / The Estates General of the Republic of the United Provinces
4: Act of Suriname (August 17, 1665) / British Colonial Commissioner
5: Appointment of Samson Wertheimer as Imperial Court Factor (August 29, 1703) / Leopold I
6: Plantation Act (March 19, 1740) / The Houses of Parliament of Great Britain
7: Charter decreed for the Jews of Prussia (April 17, 1750) / Frederick II
8: Jew Bill (1753) / The Houses of Parliament of Great Britain
9: Concerning the amelioration of the civil status of the Jews (1781) / Christian Wilhelm Von Dohm
10: Arguments against Dohm (1782) / Johann David Michaelis
11: Response to Dohm (1782) / Moses Mendelssohn
12: Remarks concerning Michaelis's response to Dohm (1783) / Moses Mendelssohn
13: Edict of tolerance (January 2, 1782) / Joseph II
14: Edict of tolerance for Jews of Galicia (May 27, 1789) / Joseph II
15: Petition to the Hungarian diet (June 1790) / The Community of Jews Living in Hungary
16: De Judaeis: Law governing the status of the Jews of Hungary (1791) / Leopold II
17: Essay on the physical, moral and political reformation of the Jews (1789) / Abbe Gregoire
Part 2: Harbingers Of Cultural And Ideological Change:
1: Writ of excommunication against Baruch Spinoza (July 27, 1656) / The Sephardi Community of Amsterdam
2: On the election of the Jews / Baruch Spinoza
3: Moses Mendelssohn visits the seer of Koenigsberg (1777)
4: Jews (1754) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
5: Parable of toleration (1779) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
6: Letter to Markus Herz (1777) / Immanuel Kant
7: Right to be different (1783) / Moses Mendelssohn
8: Words of peace and truth (1782) / Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely
9: Sermon contra Wessely (1782) / David (Tevele) Ben Nathan of Lissa
10: Sermon on Wessely and the edict of tolerance (1782) / Ezekiel Landau
11: Stream of Besor (April 1783) / Hameasef
12: We shall not be deterred (1787) / Hameasef
13: Preface to volume one of Sulamith (1806) / Joseph Wolf
14: Call for religious enlightenment (1808) / Sulmanith
15: On the need for a German translation of scripture (1782) / Moses Mendelssohn
16: On the curtailment of Jewish juridical autonomy (1782) / Moses Mendelssohn
17: On self-development and the abolishment of Jewish autonomy (March 19, 1792) / David Friedlaender
18: Search for light and right: an Epistle to Moses Mendelssohn (1782)
19: Postscript to "Search for Light and Right" (1782) / David Ernst Moerschel
20: Judaism is the cornerstone of Christianity (1783) / Moses Mendelssohn
21: Judaism as revealed legislation (1783) / Moses Mendelssohn
22: Time will come when no one will inquire who is a Jew or a Christian (1789) / Johann Gottfried von Herder
23: Leviathan (1792) / Saul Ascher
24: Notes regarding the characteristics of the Jews (1793) / Lazarus Bendavid
25: Euthanasia of Judaism (1798) / Immanuel Kant
26: Open letter to his reverence, Probst Teller (1799) / David Friedlaender.
Part 3: Process Of Political Emancipation In Western Europe, 1789-1871:
1: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789) / The French National Assembly
2: Debate on the eligibility of Jews for citizenship (December 23, 1789) / The French National Assembly
3: Decree recognizing the Sephardim as citizens (January 28, 1790) / The French National Assembly
4: Constitution of France (September 3, 1791) / The French National Assembly
5: Emancipation of the Jews of France (September 28, 1791) / The French National Assembly
6: Letter of a citizen to his fellow Jews (1791) / Berr Isaac Berr
7: Debate on Jewish Emancipation (August 22-31, 1796) / National Assembly of Batavia
8: Emancipation of Dutch Jewry (September 2, 1796) / National Assembly of Batavia
9: First Emancipation in Rome (February 1799) / The Roman Republic
10: Tearing down the gates of the Venetian ghetto (July 10, 1797) / Pier Gian Maria De Ferrari
11: Imperial decree calling for an Assembly of Jewish Notables (May 30, 1806) / Napoleon Bonaparte
12: Instructions to the Assembly of Jewish Notables (July 29, 1806) / Count Mole
13: Reply on behalf of the assembly to Count Mole (July 29, 1806) / Abraham Furtado
14: Answers to Napoleon (1806) / The Assembly of Jewish Notables
15: Summons for convening the Parisian Sanhedrin (September 18, 1806) / Count Mole
16: Doctrinal decisions (April 1807) / The Parisian Sanhedrin
17: Reaction to Napoleon (c 1814) / The Hasidim of Poland
18: Infamous decree (1808) / Napoleon Bonaparte
19: Emancipation in Prussia (March 11, 1812) / Frederick William III
20: Article 16 of the Constitution of the German Confederation (June 8, 1815) / The Congress of Vienna
21: Paulus-Riesser debate (1831) / Heinrich Paulus And Gabriel Riesser
22: Civil disabilities of the Jews (1831) / Thomas MaCaulay
23: Emancipation Act (1832) / Assembly of Lower Canada
24: Law concerning the fundamental rights of the German people: religious equality (1848) / The Frankfurt Parliament
25: Jewish Relief Act (July 23, 1858) / The Houses of Parliament of Great Britain
26: North German Confederation and Jewish Emancipation (July 3, 1869) / Wilhelm I
27: Emancipation in Bavaria (April 22, 1871) / Wilhelm I
Part 4: Emerging Patterns Of Religious Adjustment: Reform, Conservative, Neo-Orthodox, And Ultraorthodox Judaism:
1: Constitution of the Hamburg Temple (December 11, 1817) / The New Israelite Temple Association
2: Light of Splendor (1818) / Eliezer Liebermann
3: These are the Words of the Covenant (1819) / The Hamburg Rabbinical Court
4: Reply concerning the question of reform (1819) / Hatam Sofer
5: Sword which avenges the covenant (1819) / Meyer Israel Bresselau
6: Last will and testament (1839) / Hatam Sofer
7: Mendelssohn's Biur is heretical (1865) / Rabbi Moses Schick
8: Question of patriotism (June 1844) / The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Brunswick
9: Hebrew as the language of Jewish prayer (1845) / The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Frankfurt
10: Question of Messianism (1845) / The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Frankfurt
11: This is our task (1853) / Samuel Holdheim
12: Rationale of reform (1844) / Aaron Chorin
13: Open rebuke (1845) / Salomon Jehuda Leib Rappoport
14: On changes in Judaism (1845) / Zecharias Frankel
15: Religion allied to progress (1854) / Samson Raphael Hirsch
16: Manifesto of ultra-Orthodoxy (1865) / The Rabbinical Decision of the Michalowce Assembly
17: Secession of the Orthodox (1877) / Samson Raphael Hirsch
Part 5: Modern Jewish Studies:
1: Society for the Preservation of the Jewish People (1819) / Joel Abraham List
2: Statutes (1822) / The Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews
3: Society to further Jewish integration (1822) / Eduard Gans
4: On the concept of a science of Judaism (1822) / Immanuel Wolf
5: On Rabbinic literature (1818) / Leopold Zunz
6: Scholarship and emancipation (1832) / Leopolod Zunz
7: Future of Jewish studies (1869) / Moritz Steinschneider
8: Jewish scholarship and religious reform (1836) / Abraham Geiger
9: Sermon on the science of Judaism (1855) / Samson Raphael Hirsch
10: Learning based on faith (1860) / Samuel David Luzzato
11: Mekize Nirdamim (1861) / Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann
12: Jewish scholarship: new perspectives (1901) / Martin Buber
13: Documenting Jewish history in eastern Europe (February 25, 1927) / Simon Dubnow et al
14: Just what is Jewish ethnography? (1929) / Khayim Khayes and Naftuli Vaynig
15: Science of Judaism, its achievements and prospects (1971) / Gershom Scholem.
Part 6: Political And Racial Antisemitism:
1: Jews (1756) / Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
2: Apology for the Jewish nation (1762) / Isaac de Pinto
3: Reply to de Pinto (c 1762) / Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
4: State within a state (1793) / Johann Gottlieb Fichte
5: On the danger to the well-being and character of the Germans presented by the Jews (1816) / Jakob Friedrich Fries
6: Our visitors (1816) / K B A Sessa
7: Features of the Jews to be corrected (1819) / Leopold Zunz
8: Jewish mirror (1819) / Hartwig Von Hundt-Radowsky
9: Notables of the Jewish community of Damascus (1840)
10: Appeal to all Israelites (1860) / Alliance Israelite Universelle
11: Our first thirty-five years (1895) / The Alliance Israelite Universelle
12: Jewish problem (1843) / Bruno Bauer
13: On the Jewish problem (1844) / Karl Marx
14: Jewry in music (1850) / Richard Wagner
15: Victory of Judaism over Germandom (1879) / Wilhelm Marr
16: Question of the Jew is a question of race (1881) / Karl Eugen Duehring
17: Judaism: race or religion? (1883) / Ernest Renan
18: Jews: Kings of the Epoch (1845) / Alphonse Toussenel
19: Jews: Oppressed or Oppressors? (1877) / Fyodor Dostoievsky
20: Jewish France (1886) / Edouard-Adolphe Drumont
21: What we demand of modern Jewry (1879) / Adolf Stoecker
22: Word about our Jewry (1880) / Heinrich Von Treitschke
23: Another word about our Jewry (1880) / Theodor Mommsen
24: Of the people of Israel (1882) / Friedrich Nietzsche
25: Racists' Decalogue (1883) / Theodor Fritsch
26: J'accuse (1898) / Emile Zola
27: Foundations of the nineteenth century (1899) / Houston Stewart Chamberlain
28: Rabbi's speech: the promise of world domination (1872) / Hermann Goedsche
29: Protocols of the elders of Zion (c 1902).
30: Expert opinion in support of the ritual blood accusation (1911) / Ivan Alexeyevitch Sikorsky
Part 7: East European Jewry:
1: People that dwells apart (1892) / Harold Frederic
2: Statutes concerning the Organization of Jews (December 9, 1804) / Alexander I
3: Statutes regarding the military service of the Jew (August 26, 1827) / Nicholas I
4: Delineation of the Pale of Settlement (April 1835) / Nicholas I
5: May Laws (May 3, 1882) / Alexander III
6: Need for enlightenment (1840) / S J Fuenn
7: Jewish Program for Russification (1841) / Maskilim to the Governors of the Pale
8: Awake My People! (1866) / Judah Leib Gordon
9: For Whom Do I Toil? (1871) / Judah Leib Gordon
10: Tip of the Yud (1875) / Judah Leib Gordon
11: New Hasidim (1793) / Solomon Maimon
12: Excommunication of the Hasidim (April 1772) / Rabbinical Leaders of Vilna
13: How I Became a Hasid (c 1850) / Baruch Mordecai Ettinger
14: Volozhin Yeshivah (1909) / Rabbi David Moses Joseph of Krynki
15: Musar Yeshivah (c 1910) / Hirsch Leib Gordon
16: Modern Yeshivah of Lida (1907) / Isaac Jacob Reines
17: Russian must be our mother tongue (1861) / Osip Aronowich Rabinowich
18: Program (February 8, 1864) / Society for the Promotion of Culture Among Jews
19: Yiddish is a corrupt jargon (1828) / Isaac Dov Levinsohn
20: Hebrew-our national fortress (1868) / Peretz Smolenskin
21: My soul desired Yiddish (1862) / Mendele Moykher Sforim
22: European culture destroyed my family (1909) / Pauline Wengeroff
23: Jewish question in Eastern Europe (1877) / Aaron Liebermann
24: Plight of the Jews of Rumania (1878) / Congress of Berlin
25: Awaiting a Pogrom in Vilna (1882)
26: Massacre of Jews at Kishinev (June 1, 1903) / N Tchaykovsky
27: City of Slaughter (1903) / Haim Nahman Bialik
28: Beilis trial (1913) / The New York Times
29: To America or the Land of Israel? (1881) / Judah Leib Levin
30: On the latest wave of emigration (1891) / Hazfirah
31: Appeal to the Jews in Russia (1891) / Baron Maurice de Hirsch
32: Cultural autonomy (1901) / Simon Dubnow
33: Decisions on the nationality question (1899, 1901, 1905, 1910) / The Bund
34: Helsingfors program (1906) / All-Russian Zionist Conference
35: Czernowitz Conference of the Yiddish Language (1908)
36: Women in the Bund and Poalei Zion (1937) / Manya Shohat
37: Critical remarks on the national question (1913) / V I Lenin
38: Jews are not a nation (1913) / Joseph Stalin
39: Emancipation by the March Revolution (1917) / The Provisional Government
40: Liquidation of Bourgeois Jewish Institutions (1918) / Yevsektsiya
41: Minorities Treaty (June 28, 1919) / The Allies and the Republic of Poland
42: Hungary violates the minorities treaty (1921) / Lucien Wolf
43: Position of Hungarian Jewry (c February 1939) / The Jewish Community of Budapest
44: Appeal to the Jewish workers and toilers (1920) / A group of Jewish soldiers of the Red Army
45: Constitution of the Republic of Poland (1921)
46: Why did we create the minorities bloc? (1922) / Yitzhak Guenbaum
47: Birobidzhan: A Jewish autonomous region (1934)
48: We, Polish Jews / Julian Tuwim.
Part 8: Sephardi And Middle Eastern Jewry:
1: Call for Sephardi Enlightenment (1778) / David Attias
2: Cremieux Decree (October 24, 1870)
3: Jews under Italian rule (c1906) / Mordechai Ha-Kohen
4: Privileges and immunities of the non-Muslim communities (1856) / Sultan 'Abumecid
5: Petition for British citizenship (November 18, 1918) / The Jewish Community of Baghdad
6: Travail in an Arab land (1792) / Samuel Romanelli
7: Critique of popular Moroccan Jewish culture (1891) / Yishaq Ben Ya'is Halewi
8: Letter to the Jewish community of Marrakesh (1892) / Stella Corcos
9: Need for alliance schools in Algeria (1901) / Moise Nahon
10: Traditional schools in Constantinople: a critique (1906) / Moise Fresco
11: General instructions for teachers (1903) / Alliance Israelite Universelle
12: Beginnings of westernization and reform in the Mellah Fe (1913) / Amram Elmaleh
13: French naturalization of Moroccan Jews (1923) / Y D Semach
14: French to replace the local "Jargon": Casablanca (1898) / Moise Nahon
15: Survival of Judeo-Spanish: Constantinople (1908) / Moise Fresco
16: Multiplicity of languages in an alliance school in Constantinople (1913) / A Benveniste
17: Response to Darwin / Mordecai Ha-Kohen
18: Sigmund Freud on Moses and his Torah (1939) / Abraham Shalom Yahuda
19: Feminist look at the women of Fez (1900) / N Benchimol
20: Responsum on women's suffrage (1920) / Ben-Zion Uzziel
21: Jewish Egyptian patriot calls for deemphasizing religion in his country's public life for the sake of national unity (1912) / Murad Faraj
22: Baghdadi Rabbi decries the decline of traditional morals (1913) / Simeon Agasi
23: De-Judaization among the Jews of Tunisia and the steps needed to fight it (1929) / L Loubaton
24: Koran and other scriptures (1893) / Yaaqub (James) Sanu'
25: Third redemption (1843) / Yehuda Alkalai
26: Letter to Theodor Herzl (1897) / Bar Kokhba Jewish Society, Cario
27: Call to Alexandrian Jewry to celebrate the San Remo recognition of the Balfour Declaration (1920) / Zeire Zion Society, Alexandria
28: Iraqi Zionists complain about their lack of representation in the Jewish agency and of Ashkenazi bias (1925) / Mesopotamian Zionist Committee, Baghdad
29: Disavowal of Zionism and pledge of loyalty to the Arab cause (1929) / Damascus Jewish Youth Association
30: Iraqi Jewish notable expresses his reservations on Zionism (1922) / Menahem S Daniel
31: Events in the East and their repercussions on the Jewish communities (1936) / Ezra Menda
32: Report of the Iraqi commission of inquiry on the Farhud (1941)
33: Abrogation of the Cremieux Decree by the Vichy Regime (1940)
34: Vichy official discusses a German proposal to require Jews to wear the Yellow Star in Tunis (1943)
35: New Year's sermon (1942) / Moise Ventura
36: Iraqi law permitting Jews to emigrate with the forfeiture of nationality (1950).
Part 9: American Jewry:
1: Petition to expel the Jews from New Amsterdam (September 22, 1654) / Peter Stuyvesant
2: Reply to Stuyvesant's petition (April 26, 1655) / Dutch West India Company
3: Rights of the Jews of New Amsterdam (March 13, 1656) / Dutch West India Company
4: Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
5: Virginia Act of 1785 (December 16, 1785)
6: Constitution of the United States of America (1789)
7: Message of Welcome to George Washington (August 17, 1790) / Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island
8: Reply to the Hebrew congregation of Newport (c August 17, 1790) / George Washington
9: Observant Jewish woman in America (1791) / Rebecca Samuel
10: Country where religious distinctions are scarcely known (1815) / Rachel Mordecai Lazarus
11: Proclamation to the Jews (September 15, 1825) / Mordecai Manuel Noah
12: America is not Palestine (March 29, 1841) / Rebecca Gratz
13: Jewish Publication Society of America (1845) / Isaac Leeser
14: Off to America! (May 6, 1848) / L Kompert
15: Confirmation of girls (1854) / Issac Meyer Wise
16: Dedication of Hebrew Union College (1875) / David Philipson
17: Pittsburgh platform (1885) / Conference of reform Rabbis
18: Beginning of the Jewish Theological Seminary (1886) / H Pereira Mendes
19: Orthodox Jewish congregational union of America (June 8, 1898)
20: Concordance of Judaism and Americanism (1911) / Kaufmann Kohler
21: Manhattan Beach Affair (1879) / New York Herald
22: Jews make me creep (1896, 1901, 1914) / Henry Adams
23: Leo Frank Lynched (August 1915) / New York Times
24: Jewish immigration into the United States: 1881-1948
25: Russian Jew in America (July 1898) / Abraham Cahan
26: Bethlehem Judea Colony, South Dakota (1883) / Am Olam Movement
27: Women wage-workers (September 1893) / Julia Richman
28: Sweatshops in Philadelphia (1905) / Charles S Bernheimer
29: Economic condition of the Russian Jew in New York City (1905) / Isaac M Rubinow
30: International Ladies Garment Workers' Union and the American Labor Movement (1920) / Forverts
31: Zionism and the Jewish women of America (1915) / Henrietta Szold
32: Division between German and Russian Jews (1915) / Israel Friedlaender
33: American Jewish committee (January 12, 1906) / Louis Marshall
34: Galveston Project (October 25, 1907) / Jacob H Schiff
35: American Judaism will not be ghettoized (1908) / David Philipson
36: Yiddish and the future of American Jewry (1915) / Chaim Zhitlowsky
37: English and Hebrew must be the languages of American Jewry (1904) / Solomon Schecter
38: Republic of Nationalities (February 13, 1909) / Judah L Magnes
39: Zionism is consistent with American patriotism (June 1915) / Louis D Brandeis
40: Catholic Israel (c 1896) / Solomon Schechter
41: Reconstruction of Judaism (1920) / Mordecai M Kaplan
42: Beginnings of Secular Jewish Schools (1918-1920)
43: American Yeshiva (1926) / Bernard Revel
44: Statement of policy (May 1915) / The Anti-Defamation League
45: Temporary suspension of immigration (1920) / Congressional committee on immigration
46: International Jew: The World's Problem (1920) / Henry Ford
47: Protest against antisemitism (January 16, 1921)
48: Social and economic change reflected in Jewish school enrollment (1936)
49: Columbus platform (1937) / Conference of reform Rabbis
50: American Jewish Conference (January 1943)
51: Statement of Policy (1944) / American Council of Judaism
52: Exchange of views (1950) / David Ben-Gurion and Jacob Blaustein.
Part 10: Zionism:
1: Manifesto (1882) / The Bilu
2: Auto-emancipation (1882) / Leo Pinsker
3: Hovevei Zion (1884) / Zalman Epstein
4: Rishon Le-Zion (1882) / Joseph Feinberg
5: Revival of Hebrew (1880) / Eliezer Ben Yehuda
6: Solution of the Jewish Question (1896) / Theodor Herzl
7: Protest against Zionism (1897) / Protestrabbiner
8: Basle program (1897) / The First Zionist Congress
9: First Zionist Congress (August 1897) / Ahad Haam
10: Zionists are not our saviors (c 1900) / Rabbi Zadok Hacohen Rabinowitz
11: Women and Zionism (1901) / Theodor Herzl
12: Manifesto (1902) / The Mizrahi
13: Zionism and Jewish Art (1903) / Martin Buber
14: Jewry of Muscle (June 1903) / Max Nordau
15: Uganda plan (1903) / Theodor Herzl
16: Anti-Uganda resolution (July 30, 1905) / Seventh Zionist Congress
17: Resolution on Palestine (July 31, 1905) / Seventh Zionist Congress
18: Jewish Territorial Organization (1905) / Israel Zangwill
19: Program for proletarian Zionism (1906) / Ber Borochov
20: Gegenwartsarbeit (December 1906) / Helsingfors Conference
21: Our goal (May 1907) / Hapoel Hazair
22: Hidden question (August 1907) / Yitzhak Epstein
23: Founding of Tel Aviv: a garden city (1906/7) / Housing Association of Jaffa and Arthur Ruppin
24: Collective (1908) / Manya Shohat
25: Founding program (May 1912) / Agudat Israel
26: Language war of 1913 (June 2, 1913) / High school students in Eretz Yisrael
27: Hebrew book (1913) / Haim Nahman Bialik
28: Contra Zionism (1919) / Nathan Birnbaum
29: Debate on Zionism and Messianism (Summer 1916) / Martin Buber and Hermann Cohen
30: Our world-view (January 17, 1917) / Hashomer Hazair
31: Anti-Zionist letter to the Times [London] (May 24, 1917) / Conjoint Committee of British Jewry
32: Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) / James Balfour
33: Zionist Manifesto issued after the Balfour Declaration (December 21, 1917) / World Zionist Organization-London Bureau
34: Proposal to the general assembly of the workers of Eretz Israel (1919) / Ahdut Haavodah
35: Churchill White Paper (June 1922) / Winston Churchill
36: Mandate for Palestine (July 24, 1922) / The Council of the League of Nations
37: What the Zionist-Revisionists want (1926) / Vladimir Jabotinsky
38: Brith Shalom (1925) / Arthur Ruppin et al
39: Opening of Hebrew University (1925) / Chaim Weizmann
40: Reflections on our language / Gerhard Scholem
41. Kibbutz Hakhsharah: a memoir (c 1935) / David Frankel
42: Worker's wife: a public trial (February 7, 1937) / Abba Houshi and Ada Maimon
43: On the Arab question (January 7, 1937) / David Ben-Gurion
44: Jewish needs vs Arab claims (February 14, 1937) / Vladimir Jabotinsky
45: Peel Commission Report (July 1937)
46: White Paper of 1939 (May 1939) / Malcolm MacDonald
47: Statement on the MacDonald White paper of 1939 (May 17, 1939) / The Jewish agency for Palestine
48: Biltmore program (May 1942)
49: Sermon (1942) / Haim Hazaz
50: Case for a bi-national Palestine (November 1945) / Hashomer Hazair
51: Bi-Nationalism is unworkable (July 17, 1947) / Moshe Shertok
52: Resolution on Palestine (November 29, 1947) / United Nations General Assembly
53: Proclamation of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
54: Address to the Knesset on the Law of Return (July 3, 1950) / David Ben-Gurion
55: Law of Return (July 5, 1950)
Part 11: Shoah:
1: Letter on the Jewish question (September 16, 1919) / Adolf Hitler
2: Mein Kampf (1923) / Adolf Hitler
3: Wear the yellow badge with pride (April 4, 1933) / Robert Weltsch
4: First racial definition (April 11, 1933)
5: Decrees excluding Jews from German cultural and public life (1933 to 1942)
6: Proclamation of the (New) Reichsvertretung (September 17, 1933) / Reichsvertretung Der Deutschen Juden
7: Why the Nuremberg Laws (September 15, 1935) / Adolf Hitler
8: Law for the protection of German blood and honor / The Nuremberg Laws (September 15, 1935)
9: Reich citizenship law / The Nuremberg Laws (September 15, 1935)
10: First decree to the Reich citizenship law (November 14, 1935)
11: Response of the Christian population in Germany to the Nuremberg Laws (September 1935) / A public opinion survey
12: German economic goals and the Jewish question (August 1936) / Adolf Hitler
13: Kristallnacht-a preliminary secret report to H W Goering (November 1938) / R T Heydrich
14: Operation against the Jews (November 9-10, 1938) / Security Service Report on the Kristallnacht
15: Decree regarding atonement fine of Jewish state subjects (November 12, 1938) / H W Goering
16: Public response to the Kristallnacht (December 1938)
17: Decree for the elimination of the Jews from German economic life (November 12, 1938)
18: Numerus Nullus in schools (November 16, 1938)
19: Ghetto decreed for Berlin (December 5, 1938)
20: Prophecy of Jewry's annihilation (January 30, 1939) / Adolph Hitler
21: Plight of the refugees (June 1939) / New York Times
22: Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai (1941) / Yehoshua Rapoport
23: We must finish with the Jews (December 16, 1941) / Hans Frank
24: Protocols of the Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942)
25: Nazi response to resistance (May 1942) / Joseph Goebbels
26: Warsaw ghetto diary (March 10 and October 2, 1940) / Chaim A Kaplan
27: Warsaw ghetto memoirs (May to August 1942) / Janusz Korczak
28: Call to resistance (January 1943) / Jewish Fighting Organization
29: His last communication as ghetto revolt commander (April 23, 1943) / Mordecai Anielewicz
30: Last letter from Warsaw (March 1, 1944) / Emanuel Ringelblum
31: Jewish residential area in Warsaw is no more (May 16, 1943) / Juergen Stroop
32: Going underground in Holland / Max M Rothschild
33: Bermuda conference joint communique (May 1, 1943)
34: Where is the world's conscience? (June 1943) / Shmuel Zygelboym
35: Secret speech on the Jewish question (October 8, 1943) / Heinrich Himmler
36: Commandant of Auschwitz (c1945) / Rudolf Hoess
37: On the deportation of children from the Lodz ghetto (September 4, 1942) / Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski
38: Inside Auschwitz-a memoir (c 1970) / Franzi Epstein
39: Estimated number of Jews killed by the Nazis
40: Six million accusers (1961) / Gideon Hausner
41: Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc (1950) / Hannah Arendt.
Part 12: Jewish Identity Challenged And Redefined:
1: My emergence from Talmudic darkness (1793) / Solomon Maimon
2: Every country has the Jews that it deserves (1877) / Karl Emil Franzos
3: My father's Bourgeois Judaism (1919) / Franz Kafka
4: Memoirs of a Balkan Jew / Elias Canetti
5: I have converted (1785) / Joseph Michael Edler Von Arnsteiner
6: Why I have raised you as a Christian: a letter to his daughter (c July 1820) / Abraham Mendelssohn
7: Ticket of admission to European culture (1823, c 1854) / Heinrich Heine
8: Because I am a Jew I love freedom (1832) / Ludwig Boerne
9: O how painful to have been born a Jewess! (1795-1833) / Rahel Levin Varnhagen
10: No room in my heart for Jewish suffering (1916) / Rosa Luxemburg
11: How I grew up as a Jew in the Diaspora (1918) / Eduard Bernstein
12: Non-Jewish Jew (1958) / Isaac Deutscher
13: Hear, O Israel! (1897) / Walter Rathenau
14: Jew must free himself from Jewishness (1903) / Otto Weininger
15: Jewish self-hatred (1930) / Theodor Lessing
16: Returning home (1862) / Moses Hess
17: I am a child of Israel and a feminist (1852) / Ernestine Louise Rose
18: Epistle to the Hebrews (1882) / Emma Lazarus
19: Jewishness is an inalienable spiritual sensibility (1913) / Gustav Landauer
20: Donme affair: a letter on assimilation (1925) / A Sabbatian from Salonica, Greece
21: Address to the Society of Bnai Brith (May 6, 1926) / Sigmund Freud
22: Valedictory message to the Jewish people (1949) / Arthur Koestler
23: Jewish learning and the return to Judaism (1920) / Franz Rosenzweig
24: From Prague to Belz (1937) / Jeri Langer
25: Jewish woman (c 1930) / Berta Pappenheim
26: What I would do if I became a Rabbi (1890) / Ray (Rachel) Frank
27: Why I became a Rabbi (1938) / Regina Jonas
28: Portrait of a Jew (1962) / Albert Memmi
29: Reflections of a "Holocaust Jew" (1966) / Jean Amery
30: Parable of alienation (1946) / Daniel Bell
31: Letter to an intellectual: a reply to Daniel Bell (1946) / Ben Halpern
32: Why I choose to be a Jew (1959) / Arthur A Cohen
33: Kind of survivor (1969) / George Steiner
34: Meaning of homeland (2006) / A B Yehoshua
35: Convert's affirmations (2003) / Martha C Nussbaum
36: Jew who wasn't there: Halacha and the Jewish woman (1971) / Rachel Adler
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