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- Author: Gershon David Hundert
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421436264
- ISBN-13: 9781421436265
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Gershon David Hundert
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421436264
- ISBN-13: 9781421436265
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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.
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