A people apart

• Introduction: The Old Dispensation: the old regime

• two levels of authority, two yokes to bear

• social control: the modalities

• the Gevir, self-help and self-governance

• consensus and confusion

• Part I
• Integration and Disintegration

• 1
• Proposals: under the Enlightenment - 'useful' Jews and 'useless' Jews

• in England - incrementalism

• in France - principles

• in the Germanies - inpenetrable hostility and legal rigour

• in Poland - deadlock

• in Russia - despotism for all...

• the Jews as an encumbrance to be dealt with

• 2
• Social Fragmentation: emancipation: the early responses

• the fears of the orthodox

• the enthusiasm of the modernists

• the cultural inroads

• the Haskalah as a halfway house

• modern education - the Russian carrot

• military subscription - the Russian lash

• the irreversability of fragmentation

• 3
• Questions From Without and Within: the Jewish question posed

• the question formulated

• the Jews re-characterized

• the Jews re-demonized

• calls for treatment

• the Decembrists (along with other Russians) try their hand

• internal politics: the beginnings

• triumph at Damascus...

• ... and its limitations

• Jews in general politics and in society at large - the German model

• Part II
• Aspirations and Equivocations

• 4
• Movement: pogroms

• poverty

• migration

• decline

• West versus East

• Eastern European Jewry as the question

• 5
• Auto-Emancipation leaderlessness as a condition

• national self-determination as an idea: Zion as a destination

• Jews as revolutionaries

• the Bund

• Herzl

• 6
• Crystallization: intercession institutionalized

• 1878 - triumph in Berlin, failure in Bucharest

• the limits of libel and the rule of law

• Bernard Lazare and the Affair

• Russia in 1905 - Jews as targets, Jews as participants

• the Zionists stand still

• the orthodox circle their wagons

• Part III
• New Dispensations

• 7
• War: the Jewish contingents

• the Jewish increment

• the 'Palestine idea'

• a neutral Zionism, belligerent Zionists

• the 'Palestine Idea' revived

• self-determination

• 8
• Peace: Bolshevik Russia and the binding of its Jews

• the great slaughter

• who speaks for the Jews?

• at the Peace conference

• 9
• Captivity: Wilson's world

• the nation-state as grindstone

• ancient frictions in a new Poland

• Polish equivocation

• Jewish ambivalence: Germany takes the lead

• Machtergreifung(italic

• towards extrusion

• the Jews of Germany crushed

• a community destroyed

• 10
• Denouement: on the eve

• once again: who will lead them, where will they be led?

• a world Jewish Congress

• loyalties and principles

• the purpose of Zionism, the needs of the Jews

• pragmatism and honour

• the final rejection

• into the night

• Epilogue

• Bibliography

• Index