Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       FOREWORD

       PREFACE

       RUSSIA AND THE JEWS ToC

       THE SHIELD

       RUSSIA AND THE JEWS

       THE FIRST STEP ToC

       THE FIRST STEP

       MR. JACKSON'S OPINION ON THE JEWISH QUESTION ToC

       MR. JACKSON'S OPINION ON THE JEWISH QUESTION

       THE JEWISH QUESTION IN RUSSIA ToC

       THE JEWISH QUESTION IN RUSSIA

       THE JEWS AND RUSSIAN ECONOMIC LIFE ToC

       THE JEWS AND RUSSIAN ECONOMIC LIFE

       THE WAR AND THE STATUS OF THE JEW ToC

       THE WAR AND THE STATUS OF THE JEW

       JEWISH RIGHTS AND THEIR ENEMIES ToC

       JEWISH RIGHTS AND THEIR ENEMIES

       THE JEWISH QUESTION AS A RUSSIAN QUESTION ToC

       THE JEWISH QUESTION AS A RUSSIAN QUESTION

       CONCERNING THE IDEOLOGY OF THE JEWISH QUESTION ToC

       CONCERNING THE IDEOLOGY OF THE JEWISH QUESTION

       THE LITTLE BOY

       THE LITTLE BOY ToC

       THE FATHERLAND FOR ALL ToC

       THE FATHERLAND FOR ALL

       ON NATIONALISM ToC

       ON NATIONALISM

       CONCERNING THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE JEWS ToC

       CONCERNING THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE JEWS

       THE WOUNDED SOLDIER ToC

       THE WOUNDED SOLDIER

       HOW TO HELP? ToC

       HOW TO HELP?

       THE HOMELESS ONES ToC

       THE HOMELESS ONES

       THE JEW ToC

       THE JEW

FOREWORD

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      This is not merely a book about the Russian Jews. It is a marvellous revelation of the Russian soul. It shows not only that the overwhelming majority of the Russian intellectuals, including nearly all of her brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed to the persecution of the Jews or any other race, but that they have a capacity for sympathy and understanding of humanity unequalled in any other land. I do not know of any book where the genius and heart of Russia is better displayed. Not only her leading litterateurs but also her leading statesmen and economists are represented—and all of them speak as with a single voice.

      I am writing on the 16th of March. Yesterday the news reached the world that Russia had probably at last succeeded in emancipating itself from the German-sustained and German-supported autocracy which so long has been renounced by practically all classes of the Russian people. I have pointed out elsewhere that this Second Act of the great drama of social transformation in Russia was to be expected in connection with the present war. It is not surprising that this Act, like the first—the Revolution of 1905—is accompanied by an irresistible demand for the cessation of the persecution of the Jews and other minority races. The first Duma, that of 1906, demanded unanimously that all these races be given absolutely the same rights as other Russians. The rise of Liberalism during the war, in connection with military necessities, had already abolished a number of Jewish disabilities. There is no longer any question that the Jews will be given equality. Without exception the anti-Semitic organisations were supported by the pro-German party, the money which was alone responsible for the pogroms was furnished by these same organisations, and now this Party and these organisations are forever overthrown. It was Dr. Dubrovin, for example, who year by year carried out the murders of the leading representatives of the Jews in the Duma and who almost succeeded in having Milukov assassinated a few weeks ago. Dubrovin was one of the most important of the sinister forces supported by the money of the German Czarina's court party—which was organised by Baron Fredericks and other notorious Germans masquerading as Russians.

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