The Shield

The Shield

Author: Maxim Gorky (Ed.)

Year: 1918

Published by the Russian Society for the Study of Jewish Life under the joint editorship of three eminent men-of-letters, Gorky, Andreyev, and Sologub, the original Shield saw the light of day last year in Petro- grad. The book consists of numerous studies, essays, stories and poems, all these contributions to the symposium on the Jewish question coming exclusively from the pen of Russian authors of non-Jewish birth. In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicistic articles of the original collection. Thus, the present version contains practically all the various important studies arid essays of the Russian Shield, while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book. Maxim Gorky, Russia and the Jews 3 Leonid Andreyev, The First Step 19 Vladimir Korolenko, Mr. Jackson’s Opinion on the Jewish Question 37 Paul Milyukov, The Jewish Question in Russia 55 M. Bernatzky, The Jews and Russian Economic Life 77 Prince Paul Dolgorukov, The War and the Status of the Jew 95 Maxim Kovalevsky, Jewish Rights and Their Enemies 103 Dmitry Merezhkovsky, The Jewish Question as a Russian Question 115 Vyac