Chapter 3 Towns and Cities: Society and Economy, 1795–1863

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 The Jews of the Kingdom 14
5. Chapter 2 The Partitions of Poland: The End of the Old Order, 1772–1795 23
6. Chapter 3 Towns and Cities: Society and Economy, 1795–1863 38
7. Chapter 4 Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and Maskilim 47
8. Chapter 5 Russia and the Jews 58
9. Chapter 6 Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772–1848 70
10. Chapter 7 ‘‘Brotherhood’’ and Disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the Nineteenth Century 82
11. Chapter 8 ‘‘My Heart Is in the West’’: The Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe 90
12. Chapter 9 ‘‘The Days of Springtime’’: Czar Alexander II and the Era of Reform 102
13. Chapter 10 Between Two Extremes: Radicalism and Orthodoxy 112
14. Chapter 11 The Conservative Alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef 124
15. Chapter 12 ‘‘The Jew Is Coming!’’ Anti-Semitism from Right and from Left 134
16. Chapter 13 ‘‘Storms in the South,’’ 1881–1882 143
17. Conclusion: Jews as an Ethnic Minority in Eastern Europe 157
18. Notes 169
19. Bibliography 185
20. Index 195
21. Acknowledgments 201