From the Book - [2nd ed.]
Introduction: the background
The actual Jew and the theological Jew
I. Beginnings: Middle Ages
Immigration and settlement
Legal and political situation
Economic and social structure
Jewish community organization
II. Growth, rooting, and expansion
Background, Jewish population and settlement
Legal status, theory, and practice
Poland through the eyes of Polish Jews
The catastrophe: Cossack uprising in 1648 and its aftermath
Messianism: the Sabbatai Zevi upheaval and its impact
Messianism's aftereffect: Jacob Frank and Frankism
