This book examines the impact of the Revolution of 1905 on the nature and contours of community and self among Jews (and Poles) in Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the turn of the century.

Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History, where he also serves as head of the Stephen Roth Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Naming, Dating, Placing, and Other Methodological Dilemmas
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between Past and Present
1. Warsaw before 1905: One City, Many Stories
2. Urbanization, Community, and the Crisis of Modernity: Jewish Society in Turn-of-the-Century Warsaw
3. Revolution, Jews, and the Streets of Warsaw: Between Secret Cells and Popular Politics
4. The Rise of the Jewish Public Sphere: Coffeehouses, Theaters, and Newspapers
5. From Public Sphere to Public Will: The Elections to the Russian State Duma and the Politicization of Ethnicity
6. Democracy and Its Discontents: The Image of "the Jews" and the Transformation of Polish Politics
Conclusion: Politics, Order, and the Dialectics of Jewish Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index