Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

• PART I. THE JEWISH WORLD 1 Surveys of Jewish History 2 Social History 3 The Emancipation and Transformation of European Jewry 4 Religious Trends 5 Cultural Trends 6 Antisemitism 7 Public Affairs 8 The Holocaust 9 Zionism and Jewish Nationalism PART II. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, 11 Eastern Europe and the Balkans 12 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia 13 Western Europe, 14 The Americas 15 The United States of America and Canada 16 The Middle East, 17 The Land of Israel 18 Africa, Asia, and the Pacific 19 Bibliographies and Guides

Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

• PART I. THE JEWISH WORLD 1 Surveys of Jewish History 2 Social History 3 The Emancipation and Transformation of European Jewry 4 Religious Trends 5 Cultural Trends 6 Antisemitism 7 Public Affairs 8 The Holocaust 9 Zionism and Jewish Nationalism PART II. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, 11 Eastern Europe and the Balkans 12 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia 13 Western Europe, 14 The Americas 15 The United States of America and Canada 16 The Middle East, 17 The Land of Israel 18 Africa, Asia, and the Pacific 19 Bibliographies and Guides

Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

• PART I. THE JEWISH WORLD 1 Surveys of Jewish History 2 Social History 3 The Emancipation and Transformation of European Jewry 4 Religious Trends 5 Cultural Trends 6 Antisemitism 7 Public Affairs 8 The Holocaust 9 Zionism and Jewish Nationalism PART II. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, 11 Eastern Europe and the Balkans 12 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia 13 Western Europe, 14 The Americas 15 The United States of America and Canada 16 The Middle East, 17 The Land of Israel 18 Africa, Asia, and the Pacific 19 Bibliographies and Guides