The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews

Introduction
—Benjamin Nathans

PART I. REASSESSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION
1. Interpreting 1905
—Abraham Ascher
2. Nicholas II and the Revolution
—Richard Wortman

PART II. THE OLD REGIME CONFRONTS ITS "JEWISH QUESTION"
3. A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution
—Dmitrii Elyashevich
4. The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia
—Robert Weinberg
5. "The Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century
—Semion Goldin

PART III. 1905 AS A CROSSROADS FOR THE EMPIRE'S JEWS
6. Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia
—Brian Horowitz
7. The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community
—Scott Ury
8. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction
—Vladimir Levin
9. 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations
—Theodore R. Weeks

PART IV. CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF REVOLUTION
10. Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905
—Agnieszka Friedrich
11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution
—Hannan Hever
12. The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917
—Barry Trachtenberg
13. 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914
—Kenneth Moss
14. Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905
—Jeffrey Veidlinger
15. Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period
—Mikhail Krutikov

PART V. OVERSEAS RIPPLES: 1905 AND AMERICAN JEWRY
16. The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism and American Jewry, 1903-1914
—Rebecca Kobrin
17. Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I
—Eli Lederhendler

Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments