The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world. By telling the story of this foundational but neglected event, Jewish Emancipation reveals the lost contours of Jewish history over the past half millennium.

Table of Contents

• Illustrations
• Introduction: Ambiguous and Interminable Emancipation
• Part I: The Three Regions Emerge
• Maps, Part I
• Chapter 1: Merchant Colonies
• Chapter 2: Burgher Estate
• Chapter 3: Juridical Equality
• Part II: The Two Legislative Models
• Maps, Part II
• Chapter 4: Bureaucrat, Laboratory, Emperor
• Chapter 5: Civil Rights in Western Europe
• Chapter 6: Partition and Parity
• Chapter 7: Revolution
• Chapter 8: War
• Chapter 9: Sanhedrin
• Chapter 10: Partitions
• Part III: The Three Regions in the Nineteenth Century
• Maps, Part III
• Chapter 11: Restoration
• Chapter 12: Central Europe, 1815–1847
• Chapter 13: Revolution
• Chapter 14: Central Europe, 1850–1871
• Chapter 15: Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, I
• Chapter 16: Russia and the Kingdom of Poland, II
• Chapter 17: Western Europe
• Chapter 18: The Atlantic World
• Chapter 19: Mass Society, I
• Chapter 20: Mass Society, II
• Part IV: The Fourth Region
• Maps, Part IV
• Chapter 21: Ottoman Empire and Danubian Provinces
• Part V: Twentieth-Century Tribulations
• Maps, Part V
• Chapter 22: Minority Rights
• Chapter 23: Repudiation
• Chapter 24: Reinstatement
• Chapter 25: Maghreb and Mashreq
• Chapter 26: Israel
• Chapter 27: United States
• Conclusion: Ten Theses on Emancipation
• Acknowledgments