Notes from New North London Learning Spring 2005(?): Nineteenth Century Jewish History

( Notes from New North London Learning: Nineteenth Century Jewish History. Following the emancipation of the Jews, both Jews and European liberals looked forward to a golden age in which Jews would be acculturated and antisemitism would be a thing of the past, but in actuality the last years of the nineteenth century saw the collapse of the commitment of the Jews to Europe and Europe to the Jews. Why did this happen, and what were the causes of the mass exodus of Jews from Russia at the time, beyond the partial answer of fleeing pogroms? )