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Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

Hundert, Gershon David

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies

General World HistoryPolish History

ISBN10: 1421436264
ISBN13: 9781421436265
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Dec 1 2019
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 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.

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