Published by the Russian Society for the Study of Jewish Life under the joint editorship of three eminent men-of-letters, Gorky, Andreyev, and Sologub, the original Shield saw the light of day last year in Petrograd. The book consists of numerous studies, essays, stories and poems, all these contributions to the symposium on the Jewish question coming exclusively from the pen of Russian authors of non-Jewish birth. In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicistic articles of the original collection. Thus, the present version contains practically all the various important studies and essays of the Russian _Shield_, while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book. I have also had to sacrifice, for obvious reasons, all the poetic contributions to the original, signed by such great masters of modern Russian poetry as Balmont, Bunin, Z. Hippins, Sologub, and Shchepkina-Kupernik. My thanks are due to Dr. Louis S. Friedland and Professor Earle F. Palmer for going over a considerable portion of the present volume. A. YARMOLINSKY. CONTENTS MAXIM GORKY, Russia and the Jews 3 LEONID ANDREYEV, The First Step 19 VLADIMIR KOROLENKO, Mr. Jackson's Opinion on the Jewish Question 37 PAUL MILYUKOV, The Jewish Question in Russia 55 M. BERNATZKY, The Jews and Russian Economic Life 77 PRINCE PAUL DOLGORUKOV, The War and the Status of the Jew 95 MAXIM KOVALEVSKY, Jewish Rights and Their Enemies 103 DMITRY MEREZHKOVSKY, The Jewish Question as a Russian Question 115 VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Concerning the Ideology of the Jewish Question 125 MAXIM GORKY, The Little Boy, a Story 133 FYODOR SOLOGUB, The Fatherland for All 143 VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, On Nationalism 155 COUNT IVAN TOLSTOY, Concerning the Legal Status of the Jews 159 LEONID ANDREYEV, The Wounded Soldier, a Story 165 CATHERINE KUSKOVA, How to Help? 171 S. YELPATYEVSKY, The Homeless Ones 181 MICHAEL ARTZIBASHEF, The Jew, a Story 193 RUSSIA AND THE JEWS