Stefani Hoffman is the former Director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and coeditor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Russian Studies at The Hebrew University. His most recent book is entitled Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. He is coeditor of the journals Zion and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.

• Introduction-Benjamin NathansPART I. REASSESSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION1. Interpreting 1905-Abraham Ascher2. Nicholas II and the Revolution-Richard WortmanPART II. THE OLD REGIME CONFRONTS ITS "JEWISH QUESTION"3. A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution-Dmitrii Elyashevich4. The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia-Robert Weinberg5. "The Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century-Semion GoldinPART III. 1905 AS A CROSSROADS FOR THE EMPIRE'S JEWS6. Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia-Brian Horowitz7. The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community-Scott Ury8. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction-Vladimir Levin9. 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations-Theodore R. WeeksPART IV. CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF REVOLUTION10. Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905-Agnieszka Friedrich11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution-Hannan Hever12. The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917-Barry Trachtenberg13. 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914-Kenneth Moss14. Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905-Jeffrey Veidlinger15. Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period-Mikhail KrutikovPART V. OVERSEAS RIPPLES: 1905 AND AMERICAN JEWRY16. The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism and American Jewry, 1903-1914-Rebecca Kobrin17. Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I-Eli LederhendlerNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

Stefani Hoffman is the former Director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and coeditor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Russian Studies at The Hebrew University. His most recent book is entitled Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. He is coeditor of the journals Zion and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.

• Introduction-Benjamin NathansPART I. REASSESSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION1. Interpreting 1905-Abraham Ascher2. Nicholas II and the Revolution-Richard WortmanPART II. THE OLD REGIME CONFRONTS ITS "JEWISH QUESTION"3. A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution-Dmitrii Elyashevich4. The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia-Robert Weinberg5. "The Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century-Semion GoldinPART III. 1905 AS A CROSSROADS FOR THE EMPIRE'S JEWS6. Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia-Brian Horowitz7. The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community-Scott Ury8. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction-Vladimir Levin9. 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations-Theodore R. WeeksPART IV. CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF REVOLUTION10. Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905-Agnieszka Friedrich11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution-Hannan Hever12. The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917-Barry Trachtenberg13. 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914-Kenneth Moss14. Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905-Jeffrey Veidlinger15. Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period-Mikhail KrutikovPART V. OVERSEAS RIPPLES: 1905 AND AMERICAN JEWRY16. The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism and American Jewry, 1903-1914-Rebecca Kobrin17. Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I-Eli LederhendlerNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

Stefani Hoffman is the former Director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and coeditor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Russian Studies at The Hebrew University. His most recent book is entitled Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. He is coeditor of the journals Zion and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.

• Introduction-Benjamin NathansPART I. REASSESSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION1. Interpreting 1905-Abraham Ascher2. Nicholas II and the Revolution-Richard WortmanPART II. THE OLD REGIME CONFRONTS ITS "JEWISH QUESTION"3. A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution-Dmitrii Elyashevich4. The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia-Robert Weinberg5. "The Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century-Semion GoldinPART III. 1905 AS A CROSSROADS FOR THE EMPIRE'S JEWS6. Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia-Brian Horowitz7. The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community-Scott Ury8. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction-Vladimir Levin9. 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations-Theodore R. WeeksPART IV. CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF REVOLUTION10. Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905-Agnieszka Friedrich11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution-Hannan Hever12. The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917-Barry Trachtenberg13. 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914-Kenneth Moss14. Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905-Jeffrey Veidlinger15. Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period-Mikhail KrutikovPART V. OVERSEAS RIPPLES: 1905 AND AMERICAN JEWRY16. The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism and American Jewry, 1903-1914-Rebecca Kobrin17. Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I-Eli LederhendlerNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments