From Voltaire to Wagner : From Voltaire to Wagner

Foreword vii Prologue The Jews of Europe in the Eighteenth Century 3(38) Germany France Great Britain A glance at the other European countries The United States of America 41(6) The Men of the Ghetto 47(12) PART ONE THE CENTURY OF ENLIGHTENMENT The English Deists 59(11) France in the Enlightenment 70(87) The Protestant attitude Montesquieu: the physiocrats Voltaire Rousseau Diderot and the Encyclopedie The ``Holbachic Synagogue'' The system builders The regenerators Germany 157(56) The good Germany The good Jew German philosophy and the Jews The Berlin Jewish salons PART TWO EMANCIPATION The Emancipation 213(42) Emancipation in France Emancipation in Germany Emancipating tendencies in the Russian Empire Effects of Emancipation 255(68) The Jews' point of view The non-Jews' point of view PART THREE THE RACIST REACTION England 323(15) Jews in Walter Scott and Disraeli France 338(42) The Jews' entry into society Ghosts from the past: the wandering Jews Future threats: the Socialist movements Germany 380(78) Arndt, Jahn and the Germanomanes The detour of economic anti-Semitism Borne and Heine: young Germany or young Palestine? The atheists' crusade The case of Richard Wagner Conclusion 458(17) Notes 475(96) Index 571