Preface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroductionI. HARBINGERS OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE1. How Profitable the Nation of the Jews Are (1655), MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL2. Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews in Great Britain and Ireland (1714), JOHN TOLAND3. Declaration Protecting the Interest of Jews Residing in the Netherlands (July 13, 1657), The Estates General of the Republic of the United Provinces4. Act of Suriname (August 17, 1665), British Colonial Commissioner5. The Appointment of Samson Wertheimer as Imperial Court Factor (August 29, 1703), EMPEROR LEOPOLD I6. The Plantation Act (March 19, 1740), The Houses of Parliament7.
The Charter Decreed for the Jews of Prussia (April 17, 1750), FREDERICK II8. "The Jew Bill" (1753), The Houses of Parliament of Great Britain9. Concerning the Amelioration of the Civil Status of the Jews (1781), CHRISTIAN WILHELM VON DOHM10. Arguments Against Dohm (1782), JOHANN DAVID MICHAELIS11. Response to Dohm (1782), MOSES MENDELSSOHN12. Remarks Concerning Michaelis''s Response to Dohm, MOSES MENDELSSOHN13. Edict of Tolerance (January 2, 1782), JOSEPH II14. Patent of Tolerance for Jews of Galicia (May 27, 1785), EMPEROR JOSEPH II15.
Petition to the Hungarian Diet (June 1790), The Community of Jews Living in Hungary16. De Judaeis: Law Governing the Status of the Jews of Hungary (1791), LEOPOLD II17. An Essay on the Physical, Moral and Political Reformation of the Jews (1789), ABBÉ GRÉGOIREI I . HARBINGERS OF CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CHANGE1. The Writ of Excommunication Against Baruch Spinoza (July 27, 1656), The Sephardi Community of Amsterdam2. On the Election of the Jews, BARUCH SPINOZA3. Moses Mendelssohn Visits the Seer of Koenigsberg (1777)4. The Jews (1754), GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING5.
A Parable of Toleration (1779), GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING6. Letter to Markus Herz (1777), IMMANUEL KANT7. The Right to be Different (1783), MOSES MENDELSSOHN8. Words of Peace and Truth (1782), NAPHTALI HERZ (HARTWIG) WESSELY9. A Sermon contra Wessely (1782), DAVID (TEVELE) BEN NATHAN OF LISSA10. Sermon on Wessely and the Edict of Tolerance (1782), EZEKIEL LANDAU11. The Stream of Besor (April 1783), HAMEASEF12. We Shall Not Be Deterred (1787), HAMEASEF13.
Preface to Volume One of Shulamith (1806), JOSEPH WOLF14. Call for Religious Enlightenment (1808), SULAMITH15. On the Need for a German Translation of Scripture (1782), MOSES MENDELSSOHN16. On the Curtailment of Jewish Juridical Autonomy (1782), MOSES MENDELSSOHN17. On Self-Development and the Abolishment of Jewish Autonomy (March 19, 1792), DAVID FRIEDLAENDER18. Search for Light and Right: An Epistle to Moses Mendelssohn (1782)19. Postscript to "Search for Light and Right" (1782), DAVID ERNST MOERSCHEL20. Judaism Is the Cornerstone of Christianity (1783), MOSES MENDELSSOHN21.
Judaism as Revealed Legislation (1783), MOSES MENDELSSOHN22. A Time Will Come When No One Will Inquire Who Is a Jew or a Christian (1789), JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER23. Leviathan (1792), SAUL ASCHER24. Notes Regarding the Characteristics of the Jews (1793), LAZARUS BENDAVID25. The Euthanasia of Judaism (1798), IMMANUEL KANT26. Open Letter to His Reverence, Probst Teller (1799), DAVID FRIEDLAENDERI I I . THE PROCESS OF POLITICAL EMANCIPATION IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1789-18711. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (August 26, 1789), The French National Assembly2.
Debate on the Eligibility of Jews for Citizenship (December 23, 1789), The French National Assembly3. Decree Recognizing the Sephardim as Citizens (January 28, 1790), The French National Assembly4. The Constitution of France (September 3, 1791), The French National Assembly5. The Emancipation of the Jews of France (September 28, 1791), The French National Assembly6. Letter of a Citizen to His Fellow Jews (1791), BERR ISAAC BERR7. Debate on Jewish Emancipation (August 22-31, 1796), National Assembly of Batavia8. Emancipation of Dutch Jewry (September 9, 1796), National Assembly of Batavia9. First Emancipation in Rome (February 1799), The Roman Republic10.
Tearing Down the Gates of the Venetian Ghetto (July 10, 1797), PIER GIAN MARIA DE FERRARI11. Imperial Decree Calling for an Assembly of Jewish Notables (May 30, 1806), NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, EMPEROR OF FRANCE, KING OF ITALY12. Instructions to the Assembly of Jewish Notables (July 29, 1806), COUNT MOLÉ13. Reply on Behalf of the Assembly to Count Molé (July 29, 1806), ABRAHAM FURTADO14. Answers to Napoleon (1806), The Assembly of Jewish Notables15. Summons Convening the Parisian Sanhedrin (September 18, 1806), COUNT MOLÉ16. Doctrinal Decisions (April 1807), The Parisian Sanhedrin17. Reaction to Napoleon (c.
1814), The Hasidim of Poland18. The "Infamous Decree" (1808), NAPOLEON BONAPARTE19. Emancipation in Prussia (March 11, 1812), FREDERICK WILLIAM III20. Article 16 of the Constitution of the German Confederation (June 8, 1815), The Congress of Vienna21. The Paulus-Riesser Debate (1831), HEINRICH PAULUS AND GABRIEL RIESSER22. Civil Disabilities of the Jews (1831), THOMAS MACAULAY23. Emancipation Act (1832), Assembly of Lower Canada24. The Law Concerning the Fundamental Rights of the German People: Religious Equality (1848), The Frankfurt National Parliament25.
The Jewish Relief Act (July 23, 1858), The Houses of Parliament26. The North German Confederation and Jewish Emancipation (July 3, 1869), WILHELM I27. Emancipation of Bavaria (April 22, 1871), WILHELM IIV. EMERGING PATTERNS OF RELIGIOUS ADJUSTMENT: REFORM, CONSERVATIVE, NEO-ORTHODOX, AND ULTRAORTHODOX JUDAISM1. Constitution of the Hamburg Temple (December 11, 1817), The New Israelite Temple Association2. The Light of Splendor (1818), ELIEZER LIEBERMAN3. These Are the Words of the Covenant (1819), The Hamburg Rabbinical Court4. A Reply Concerning the Question of Reform (1819), HATAM SOFER5.
The Sword Which Avenges the Covenant (1819), MEYER ISRAEL BRESSELAU6. Last Will and Testament (1839), HATAM SOFER7. Mendelssohn''s Biur Is Heretical (1865), RABBI MOSES SCHICK8. The Question of Patriotism (June 1844), The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Brunswick9. Hebrew as the Language of Jewish Prayer (1845), The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Frankfurt10. The Question of Messianism (1845), The Reform Rabbinical Conference at Frankfurt11. This Is Our Task (1853), SAMUEL HOLDHEIM12. The Rationale of Reform (1844), AARON CHORIN13.
Open Rebuke (1845), SALOMON JEHUDA LEIB RAPPOPORT14. On Changes in Judaism (1845), ZECHARIAS FRANKEL15. Religion Allied to Progress (1854), SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH16. The Manifesto of Ultra-Orthodoxy (1865), The Rabbinical Decision of the Michalowce Assembly17. The Secession of the Orthodox (1877), SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCHV. MODERN JEWISH STUDIES1. A Society for the Preservation of the Jewish People (1819), JOEL ABRAHAM LIST2. Statutes (l822), The Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews3.
A Society to Further Jewish Integration (1822), EDUARD GANS4. On the Concept of a Science of Judaism (1822), IMMANUEL WOLF5. On Rabbinic Literature (1818), LEOPOLD ZUNZ6. Scholarship and Emancipation (1832), LEOPOLOD ZUNZ7. The Future of Jewish Studies (1869), MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER8. Jewish Scholarship and Religious Reform (1836), ABRAHAM GEIGER9. A Sermon on the Science of Judaism (1855), SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH10. Learning Based on Faith (1860), SAMUEL DAVID LUZZATO11.
Mekize Nirdamim (1861), ELIEZER LIPMAN SILBERMANN12. Jewish Scholarship: New Perspectives (1901), MARTIN BUBER13. Documenting Jewish History in Eastern Europe (Februaury 25, 1927), SIMON DUBNOW ET AL.14. What Is Jewish Ethnography? (1929), KHAYIM KHAYES AND NAFTULI VAYNIG15. Science of Judaism, Its Achievements and Prospects (1971), GERSHOM SCHOLEMV I . POLITICAL AND RACIAL ANTISEMITISM1. Jews (1756), FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET (VOLTAIRE)2.
An Apology for the Jewish Nation (1762), ISAAC DE PINTO3. Reply to de Pinto (c. 1762), FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET (VOLTAIRE)4. A State Within a State (1793), JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE5. On the Danger to the Well-Being and Character of the Germans Presented by the Jews (1816), JAKOB FRIEDRICH FRIES6. Our Visitors (1816), K. B. A.
SESSA7. Aspects of the Jewish Situation Requiring Correction (1819), LEOPOLD ZUNZ8. The Jewish Mirror (1821), HARTWIG VON HUNDT-RADOWSKY9. The Damascus Affair (1840)10. Appeal to All Israelites (1860), Alliance Israélite Universelle11. Our First Thirty-Five Years (1895), The Alliance Israélite Universelle12. The Jewish Problem (1843), BRUNO BAUER13. On the Jewish Problem (1844), KARL MARX14.
Jewry in Music (1850), RICHARD WAGNER15. The Victory of Judaism over Germandom (1879), WILHELM MARR16. The Question of the Jew Is a Question of Race (1881), KARL EUGEN DUEHRING17. Judaism: Race or Religion? (1883), ERNEST RENAN18. The Jews: Kings of the Epoch (1845), ALPHONSE TOUSSENEL19. The Jews: Oppressed or Oppressors? (1877), FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKY20. Jewish France (1886), EDOUARD-ADOLPHE DRUMONT21. What We Demand of Modern Jewry (1879), ADOLF STOECKER22.
A Word About Our Jewry (1880), HEINRICH VON TREITSCHKE23. Another Word About Our Jewry (1880), THEODOR MOMMSEN24. Of the People of Israel (1882), FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE25. The Racists'' Decalogue (1883), THEODOR FRITSCH26. J''accuse (1898), ÉMILE ZOLA27. The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), HOUSTON STEWART CHAMBERLAIN28. The Rabbi''s Speech: The Promise of World Domination (1872), ERMANN GOEDSCHE29. Protocols of the Elders of Zion (c.
1902)30. An Expert Opinion in Support of the Ritual Blood Accusation (1911), IVAN ALEXEYEVITCH SIKORSKYV I I . EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY1. A People That Dwells Apart (1892), HAROLD FREDERIC2. Statutes Concerning the Organization of Jews ( December 9, 1804), ALEXANDER I3. Statutes Regarding the Military Service of the Jew (August 26, 1827), NICHOLAS I4. Delineation of the Pale of Settlement (April 1835), NICHOLAS I5. The May Laws (May 3, 1882), ALEXANDER III6.
The Need for Enlightenment (1840), S. J. FUENN7. A Jewish Program for Russification (1841), Maskilim to the Go.