1. Manasseh presents his Petition 2. A Christian Advocate 3. What People said 4. How the Petition was received 5. End of Manasseh’s Story CHAPTER XXXIV. SPINOZA. 1. Clouds obscure the Dawn 2. The Amsterdam Jews at the Time of Spinoza 3. Spinoza’s Student Days 4. Things come to a Climax 5. How Spinoza took his Sentence; his Mode of Life 6. Unto this Last 7. His Writings 8. Results CHAPTER XXXV. IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, BEFORE THE DAWN. 1. A Long Night 2. Reuchlin and the Talmud 3. Another Jewish Influence: Elias Levitas 4. Some Jewish Results from the Invention of Printing 5. Influence of Printing on Kabbalistic Literature CHAPTER XXXVI. IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, BEFORE THE DAWN, CONTINUED. 1. A Group of Stars 2. Polish Jews 3. French Jews 4. Social Life in Germany 5. Moral and Material Effects upon the Jews CHAPTER XXXVII. MOSES MENDELSSOHN. 1. Early Days in Dessau 2. Goes to Berlin 3. How he fares there 4. Seed-time 5. Harvest 6. Nathan der Weise 7. Literary Successes 8. His Home Life 9. Last Years CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS (1780‒1880). 1. Light and Shadows 2. Leopold Zunz 3. Progress of Events and Legislation in Germany 4. Progress of Events and Legislation in France 5. Progress of Events and Legislation in Italy 6. Progress of Events and Legislation in Spain and Portugal 7. Progress of Events and Legislation in Austrian Dominions 8. Progress of Events and Legislation in other European States 9. Progress of Events and Legislation in Russia and Poland 10. Progress of Events and Legislation in Danubian Provinces 11. A Glance at the Rest of the Map CHAPTER XXXIX. TWO CENTURIES AND A QUARTER IN ENGLAND (1660‒1885). 1. The First Fifty Years 2. Influx of Germans and Poles: how received 3. Converts 4. Progress of Anglo-Jewish Legislation 5. Communal Progress 6. The Nineteenth Century 7. A Slander revived and slain 8. The Man of the Nineteenth Century 9. Conclusion INDEX _MAPS._ 1. Palestine 2. The Roman Empire at the close of the Republic 3. Europe in the Middle Ages _Erratum._ _Page 169, line 22, for 66 read 72._ OUTLINES OF JEWISH HISTORY. BOOK I. 500 B.C. TO 70 A.C. IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD. אֲסִירֵי עֳנִי וּבַרְזֶל PSALM cvii. 10. ‘_Life fulfils itself in many ways._’