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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