Intro -- Introduction -- Moses Hess: Between Messianism and social utopia -- Causes and justifications for his intellectual reversal -- "Rom und Jerusalem" -- Berthold Auerbach and Heinrich Graetz -- Messianic faith, the Jewish national debate and criticism of "Rom und Jerusalem" -- Leon Pinsker: Auto-emancipation and self-help -- Rejection of "Russification" -- "Auto-emancipation!" -- Anti-Semitism - a hereditary psychosis? -- Pinsker's Jewish national concept -- Practical steps and the colonization of Palestine -- Death and posthumous reputation -- Isaak R�ulf: Persecution and relief measures -- Aid to destitute Jews in Russia -- The journey to Kovno -- "Three days in Jewish Russia" -- From "Golus" to "Cherus": "Aruchas Bas-Ammi. Israels Heilung" -- From Katowice to Basel -- Epilogue, or: the attempt at a conclusion -- Theodor Herzl and his predecessors -- Eretz Israel: the Promised Land -- Zionism and the "Arab question" -- The (non-)resolution of a dilemma -- Excerpts from works of Moses Hess, Leon Pinsker und Isaak R�ulf -- Moses Hess: "Rom und Jerusalem" (1862) -- Leon Pinsker: "Autoemancipation!" (1882) -- Isaak R�ulf: "Aruchas Bas-Ammi" (1883) -- Notes -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index of names.

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