Should these pages succeed, even to a little extent, in influencing public feeling in America and Europe, in favour of the suggestions they contain for the redress of the indefensible wrongs of a long-suffering people, the writer will be amply rewarded for his small share in the performance of so worthy and necessary a task.

“The public moral sense of all nations,” wrote Cardinal Manning, on the same topic, a dozen years ago, “is created and sustained by participation in a universal common law; when this is anywhere broken, or wounded, it is not only sympathy, but civilisation, that has the privilege of respectful remonstrance.”

M. D.

St. Justins, Dalkey, Ireland,
4th July, 1903.

CONTENTS

[PART I]
The Story of the Russian Jew
CHAPTER PAGE
[I.][From Ancient Times To 1804,][1]
[II.][The Pale of Settlement (1804-1882),][12]
[III.][From the Ignatieff Laws to the Kishineff Massacres,][33]
[IV.][A Murder-Making Legend,][52]
[V.][Russia’s Attitude,][64]
[VI.][The Zionist Solution,][82]
[PART II]
The Kishineff Massacres
[VII.][I. Origin and Agency,][91]
[VIII.][II. Letters from Kishineff,][101]
[IX.][III. M. de Plehve’s Version,][182]
[X.][IV. An Impartial Account,][189]
[XI.] [V. Documents:]
(I) [Petition to the Director-General of Police],[207]
(II) [List of Killed],[217]
(III) [Extracts from a Report by Two Christian Ladies],[222]
[XII.][Notes and Comments,][231]
[APPENDICES]
[I.][President Roosevelt on the Kishineff Crime and the Jews,][256]
[II.][Letter from Tolstoy,][268]
[III.][Letter from Maxime Gorky,][272]
[IV.][Father John of Kronstadt Recants,][276]
[V.][The Story of Simon of Trent,][278]
[VI.][English Translation of Papal Bulls,][291]

WITHIN THE PALE