Preface Introduction - A Mirror of the Past Part 1. Genealogical Threads 1. Carolingian Connections in the 8th Century - Kalonymos of Narbonne 2. In the Spanish March and Provence from the 10th Century - Benveniste and Shem Tov Halevi 3. From Portugal to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th Century - Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos 4. From Provence to Venice and Beyond - Eliyahu Menachem Chalfan Part 2. 16th - 17th Centuries 5. Bohemia, England, and America - David and Chaim Gans of Prague 6. Golden Age for the Jews of Prague - Judah Loew and Contemporary Rabbis 7. From Padua and Venice to Poland and Lithuania - Life and Times of Saul Wahl 8. A Polish Affair - Sigismund III Vasa and Hannele Wahl Part 3. 18th Century and Later 9. Capitalists and Rabbis - Galician Social and Economic Background 10. Jewish Community Life in Brody - The Jerusalem of Austria 11. From the Baltic to the Black Sea - Jewish Migrations in Eastern Europe 12. Shmuel Hillman of Metz - Connections of an Influential 18th-Century Rabbi 13 Frankists - A Heretical Jewish sect in Eastern Europe 14. Chasidism in the Age of Enlightenment - Rational and Mystical strands in 18th-Century Jewry Part 4. Various Roads to Modern Times 15. Mendelssohn, Marx, Buber and other Descendants of Saul Wahl 16. Chayes: Prague, Brody, Livorno, and Vienna - Pan-European Connections from the 15th to the 20th Centuries 17. They Met in Trieste - Christians and Jews in an Ethnic Melting-Pot 18. Rabbis and Lawyers - A Shared Ethos Part 5. A Brief Look Back to our Legendary Past 19. Davidic Descent Appendices - Onomastics and Genetic Genealogy 20. Family Names 21. A Study in Genetic Genealogy 22. The Wahls of Tarnobrzeg - Genealogical Links and DNA tests 23. X-DNA Matches and European Roots 24. Genetic Admixture of Ashkenazi Jews - Relating to Millennial Migrations Epilogue Glossary
