First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century. The author specifically focuses on differing attitudes towards the rise of Socialism in Europe, and the fate of nineteenth-century politics in the face of the tumultuous revolutions and counter-revolutions that arose in the aftermath of the First World War.

Preface 1. The Lure and Peril of Mobility 2. Jewish Education 3. Life in a Polish Town 4. A Jewish Soldier 5. Relations between Jew and Gentile 6. In a Christian Schoo l 7. A Love Affair 8. The Rise of Anti-Semitism 9. Conservative Social Reform 10. Talks with Leipzig Scholars 11. A Social Democratic Editor 12. Eleanor Marx and Amy Levy 13. Frederick Engels 14. The Beginnings of the London School of Economics 15. Jean Jaurès as Orator 16. Initiation into English Politics 17. Interview with Emile Zola 18. Jews and Social Revolutionary Movements 19. United States and Socialist Parties 20. Foreign Affairs, 1901-11 21. Reform or Revolution 22. Conversations on Marx 23. Mr. Gladstone and Labour 24. Interview with Lenin 25. Problems of Unites States and Britain 26. Studies in British Socialism 27. An Alien Enemy 28. Berlin During the War 29. Germany in Defeat 30. Macchiavelli on Revolution 31. Marxism and the International 32. An Adventurous Jew 33. A Revolutionary Idealist 34. Money as Social Nexus 35. In Moscow, 1927-28 36. Heinrich Heine on Nazism 37. The Nazi Counter-Revolution 38. Retrospect and Some Conclusions; Index