Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
The Jews of the kingdom -- The partitions of Poland: the end of the old order, 1772-1795 -- Towns and cities: society and economy, 1795-1863 -- Hasidim, mitnagdim, and maskilim -- Russia and the Jews -- Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772-1848 -- "Brotherhood" and disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the nineteenth century -- "My heart is in the West" : The Haskalah movement in Eastern Europe -- "The days of springtime": Czar Alexander II and the era of reform -- Between two extremes: radicalism and orthodoxy -- The conservative alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef -- "The Jew is coming!" Anti-semitism from right and from left -- "Storms in the South," 1881-1882 -- Conclusion: Jews as an ethnic minority in Eastern Europe.