Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. From the Renaissance to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
7. "Poem about Jews" (rnid-1530s) 33
8. Principles of Law of the Polish Land (1579) 34
9. Catechism of the Secrets of the Polish Government as Written about the Year 1735 by the Esteemed Mr. Sterne in the English Language, Later Translated into French, and Now Finally into Polish (1790) 36
10. "Jews" 38
11. Levi and Sarah 43
12. The Year 3333, or An Incredible Dream 61
13. Pan Tadeusz 71
14. "Israel in Poland" 76
15. Collocation 80
16. "Polish Jews" 87
17. Part Two. From Positivism to Modernism
18. The Jew: Contemporary Images 93
19. Letters from America 99
20. "Mighty Samson" 102
21. Meir Ezofowicz 118
22. "Chava Ruby" 142
23. "El mole rachmim ... :' 158
24. "The Tailor" 162
25. "Froim (A Sketch from Nature)" 179
26. Our Jews in Towns and Villages 187
27. "Srul of Lubartów'' 190
28. The Doll 198
29. Chronicles 210
30. "Mendel of Gdańsk (A Sketch)" 221
31. "The Anti-Semite" 236
32. Part Three. From World War I to World War II
33. The Popular Anti-Semitic Press from 1915 to 1929: Four Treatises 273
34. Two Poems 293
35. The Stranger 295
36. The City of Herod: Palestinian Notes 298
37. "The Bałaguła" 302
38. Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition 320
39. "Cultural Anti-Semitism" 326
40. "The Anti-Semitism of Academic Youth" 331
41. Part Four. World War II and the Holocaust
42. "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" 337
43. Holy Week 339
44. "Elegy of Jewish Towns" 363
45. Part Five. The Postwar Era: War and Holocaust Revisited
46. "The Man with the Package" 367
47. "The Mendelssohn Quartet" 370
48. "Yankel's Last Concert" 381
49. "The Branch" 386
50. The Beautiful Mrs. Seiden man 389
51. The Final Station: Umschlagplatz 396
52. Selected Bibliography of Works in English on the Jews of Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations 401