Jewish emancipation: a history across five centuries

Introduction: Ambiguous and interminable emancipation

Part 1 The three regions emerge. Merchant colonies ; Burgher estate ; Juridical equality

Part 2 The two legislative models. Bureaucrat, laboratory, emperor ; Civil rights in Western Europe ; Partition and parity ; Revolution ; War ; Sanhedrin ; Partitions

Part 3 The three regions in the nineteenth century. Restoration ; Central Europe, 1815-1847 ; Revolution ; Central Europe, 1850-1871 ; Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, I ; Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, II ; Western Europe ; The Atlantic world ; Mass society, I ; Mass society, II

Part 4 The fourth region. Ottoman Empire and Danubian Provinces

Part 5 Twentieth-century tribulations. Minority rights ; Repudiation ; Reinstatement ; Maghreb and Mashreq ; Israel ; United States ; Conclusion: ten theses on emancipation.