Table of Contents

Special Issue: History of the Jews in Russia and Poland: From the Earliest Times until the Present Day.
Volume I of III. From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)

by S.M. Dubnow

Translator’s Preface

The Jewish Diaspora in Eastern Europe

The Jewish Colonies in Poland and Lithuania

The Autonomous Center in Poland at Its Zenith (1501-1648)

The Inner Life of Polish Jewry at Its Zenith

The Autonomous Center in Poland during Its Decline (1648-1772)

The Inner Life of Polish Jewry during the Period of Decline

The Russian Quarantine against Jews (till 1772)

Polish Jewry during the Period of the Partitions

The Beginnings of the Russian Régime

The “Enlightened Absolutism” of Alexander I

The Inner Life of Russian Jewry during the Period of “Enlightened Absolutism”

The Last Years of Alexander I