Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-12

PART I - NEW DYNAMICS?

pp 13-14

1 - Crisis as a Factor in Modern Jewish Politics, 1840 and 1881–1882

pp 15-31

2 - Jewish Politics and the Press: The “Reception” of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1860)

pp 32-54

PART II - REVOLUTION AND WAR (1905–1921)

pp 55-56

3 - Jewish Politics and the Russian Revolution of 1905

pp 57-71

4 - “Youth in Revolt”: An-sky's In Shtrom and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905

pp 72-97

5 - Yosef Haim Brenner, the “Half-Intelligentsia,” and Russian-Jewish Politics (1899–1908)

pp 98-130

6 - The Paradoxical Politics of Marginality: Thoughts on the Jewish Situation during the Years 1914–1921

pp 131-154

PART III - IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT AND CONTINUITY

pp 155-156

7 - The Socialist Opposition to Zionism in Historical Perspective

pp 157-180

PART IV - OVERSEAS

pp 181-182

8 - The “Yizkor” Book of 1911: A Note on National Myths in the Second Aliya

pp 183-215

9 - The Bundists in America and the “Zionist Problem”

pp 216-236

PART V - HISTORY AND THE HISTORIANS

pp 237-238

10 - S. M. Dubnov: Historian and Ideologist

pp 239-275

11 - Assimilation and the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Toward a New Historiography?

pp 276-310

Index

pp 311-324