CONTENTS.
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Translator's Preface, [ix.]
Introduction.—State of Poland in last century, [1]
Chapter—
I.—My Grandfather's Housekeeping, [6]
II.—First Reminiscences of Youth, [19]
III.—Private Education and Independent Study, [22]
IV.—Jewish Schools—The Joy of being released from them causes a Stiff Foot, [32]
V.—My Family is driven into Misery, and an old Servant loses by his
great Faithfulness a Christian Burial, [38]
VI.—New Abode, New Misery—The Talmudist, [42]
VII.—Joy endureth but a little while, [49]
VIII.—The Pupil knows more than the Teacher—A theft à la
Rousseau, which is discovered—"The ungodly provideth, and
the righteous putteth it on," [54]
IX.—Love Affairs and Matrimonial Proposals—The
Song of Solomon may be used in the service
of Matchmaking—A new Modus Lucrandi—Smallpox, [59]
X.—I become an object of Contention, get two Wives
at once, and am kidnapped at last, [65]
XI.—My Marriage in my eleventh Year makes me the
Slave of my Wife, and procures for me
Cudgellings from my Mother-in-Law—A
Ghost of Flesh and Blood, [74]
XII.—The Secrets of the Marriage State—Prince
Radzivil, or what is not all allowed in
Poland? [79]
XIII.—Endeavour after mental Culture amid ceaseless
Struggles with Misery of every Kind, [89]
XIV.—I study the Cabbalah, and become at last a
Physician, [94]
XV.—A brief Exposition of the Jewish Religion from
its Origin down to the most recent Times, [111]
XVI.—Jewish Piety and Penances, [132]
XVII.—Friendship and Enthusiasm, [138]
XVIII.—The Life of a Family Tutor, [145]
XIX.—Also on a Secret Society, and therefore a Long
Chapter, [151]
XX.—Continuation of the Former, and also Something
about Religious Mysteries, [176]
XXI.—Journeys to Königsberg, Stettin, and Berlin, for
the purpose of extending my Knowledge of
Men, [187]
XXII.—Deepest Stage of Misery, and Deliverance, [197]
XXIII.—Arrival in Berlin—Acquaintances—Mendelssohn—Desperate
Study of Metaphysics—Doubts—Lectures
on Locke and Adelung, [210]
XXIV.—Mendelssohn—A Chapter devoted to the Memory
of a worthy Friend, [221]
XXV.—My Aversion at first for Belles Lettres, and my
subsequent Conversion—Departure from Berlin—Sojourn
in Hamburg—I drown myself in
the same way as a bad Actor shoots himself—An
old Fool of a Woman falls in Love with
me, but her Addresses are rejected, [234]
XXVI.—I return to Hamburg—A Lutheran Pastor
pronounces me to be a scabby Sheep, and
unworthy of Admission into the Christian
Fold—I enter the Gymnasium, and frighten
the Chief Rabbi out of his Wits, [253]
XXVII.—Third journey to Berlin—Frustrated Plan of
Hebrew Authorship—Journey to Breslau—Divorce, [265]
XXVIII.—Fourth journey to Berlin—Unfortunate
circumstances—Help—Study of Kant's Writings—Characteristic
of my own Works, [279]
Concluding Chapter, [290]