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9781421436265 Academic Inspection Copy

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Case of Opatow in the Eighteenth Century
  • ISBN-13: 9781421436265
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Gershon David Hundert
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2020
  • Format: Paperback 262 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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In the eighteenth century, more than half of the world's Jewish population lived in Polish private villages and towns owned by magnate-aristocrats. Furthermore, roughly half of Poland's entire urban population was Jewish. Thus, the study of Jews in private Polish towns is central to both Jewish history and to the history of Poland-Lithuania. This study seeks to investigate the social, economic, and political history of Jews in Opat+¦w, a private Polish town, in the context of an increasing power and influence of private towns at the expense of the Polish crown and gentry in the eighteenth century. Hundert recovers an important community from historical obscurity by providing a balanced perspective on the Jewish experience in the Polish Commonwealth and by describing the special dimensions of Jewish life in a private town.

""The book's great and lasting value lies... in the consistently high standard of research which has gone into it. This will insure that Hundert's study will become a sine qua non for all those interested in studying... the history of the Jews in Poland and the role of Jews in Polish history.""

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