Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 46752-h.htm or 46752-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46752/46752-h/46752-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46752/46752-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyofjews06graeuoft Project Gutenberg has the other five volumes of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43056 Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43057 Volume III: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43337 Volume IV: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43900 Volume V: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45085 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Small-capital text is shown as all-capital. Transcriber-provided Hebrew transliterations are enclosed by curly braces next to the Hebrew text (example: בית שמואל אחרון {Hebrew: Beyt Shmuel Acharon}). Some devices might lack the necessary character sets, in which case question marks, squares, or other symbols will be displayed. In this case the reader should refer to the html version referred to above or to the original page images at Internet Archive. Other transcriber's notes will be found at the end of this eBook, following the Footnotes. HISTORY OF THE JEWS by HEINRICH GRAETZ VOL. VI CONTAINING A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR BY DR. PHILIP BLOCH A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF JEWISH HISTORY AN INDEX TO THE WHOLE WORK [Illustration] Philadelphia The Jewish Publication Society of America 5717-1956 Copyright, 1898, by The Jewish Publication Society of America All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher: except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Printed in the United States of America PREFACE TO THE INDEX VOLUME.