Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables xiii
4. Preface xiv
5. Chapter 1 Demography and Social (Re)Stratification 1
6. Chapter 2 The Challenge of Emancipation. Jewish Policies of the New Nation-States and Empires (18th-19th centuries) 117
7. Chapter 3 Identity Construction and Strategies since the Haskalah. Assimilation, Its Crises and the Birth of Jewish Nationalisms 197
8. Chapter 4 The Road to the Shoah. From Christian Anti-Judaism to Radical Anti-Semitism 299
9. Chapter 5 Epilogue: after 1945 387
10. Selected Bibliography for Further Reading 455
11. Biographical Index 465