Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3626-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies

Winner of the Montreal Jewish Public Library's J. I. Segal Prize

Originally published in 1991. 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. The Jews in a Polish Private Town seeks to investigate the social, economic, and political history of Jews in Opatów, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hundert, Gershon David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figure, Maps, Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1. Numbers
Chapter 2. The Town and the Jewish Community before 1700
Chapter 3. Jews and Other Poles
Chapter 4. Jews in the Economy
Chapter 5. Jewish Society
Chapter 6. The Jewish Community
Chapter 7. Authority in the Jewish Community
Chapter 8. Power and the Jewish Community
Afterword
Appendix 1. The Privilege of the Jewish Community of Opatow
Appendix 2. Measures, Weights, and Money
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hundert, Gershon David
Gershon D. Hundert is the Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He specializes in Jewish history and early modern Polish history.

Gershon D. Hundert is the Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He specializes in Jewish history and early modern Polish history.