Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. EDITORS' PREFACE VII
3. THE HISTORIC QUEST IX
4. CONTENTS XV
5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF SALO WITTMAYER BARON XVII
6. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF TOBIAS BEN MOSES THE KARAITE OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1
7. TOWARD THE DAWN OF HISTORY 39
8. THE MESSIANIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF ABRAHAM ABULAFIA: A TENTATIVE EVALUATION 55
9. THE CLOAKMAKERS' STRIKE OF 1910 63
10. TRADITION AND INNOVATION 95
11. FELIX LIBERTATÉ AND THE EMANCIPATION OF DUTCH JEWRY 105
12. AMERICAN JEWRY—REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL, COMMUNAL, AND SPIRITUAL TRENDS 123
13. MORALITY AND RELIGION IN THE THEOLOGY OF MAIMONIDES 139
14. AN AMERICAN JEW AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1919: EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF OSCAR S. STRAUS 159
15. THE LAFAYETTE COMMITTEE FOR JEWISH EMANCIPATION 169
16. THE BACKGROUND OF THE BERLIN HASKALAH 183
17. ASPECTS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNAL CRISIS IN THE PERIOD OF THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY AUSTRIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA 199
18. JEWISH IMMIGRANTS IN LONDON IN THE 1880's 231
19. DOES THE JEWISH PAST HAVE A FUTURE? 251
20. AN AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 265
21. FLIGHT FROM THE SLUMS 285
22. WELLHAUSEN'S INTERPRETATION OF ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY: A REAPPRAISAL OF HIS RULING IDEAS 299
23. THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION IN AMERICA 333
24. ON MARRIAGE IN ALALAKH 351
25. DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON'S GRAMMAR AND HEBREW PSALTER 359
26. TYPES OF LECTURES IN THE BABYLONIAN ACADEMIES 375
27. A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO THE HALACHAH 403
28. SOME ATTITUDES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY REFORM LAYMEN 411
29. ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF YIDDISH RIME 423
30. "IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!" AN EPISODE IN THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE TERRITORIAL UNIFICATION OF FRANCONIAN JEWRY IN THE MID-FIFTEENTH CENTURY 443