Jews In Poland Lithuania In The Eighteenth Century
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Jews in Poland Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2004-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520238442 |
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Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.
Jews in Poland Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520249943 |
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Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.
Jews in Poland Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520940326 |
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Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world—an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization—in short, of westernization—that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"—an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.
Jews in Poland Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2004-02-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520940321 |
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Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world—an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization—in short, of westernization—that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"—an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.
Jews in Poland Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
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Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:552325070 |
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The Jews in a Polish Private Town
Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421436272 |
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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.
Money Power and Influence in Eighteenth Century Lithuania
Author | : Adam Teller |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2016-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804799874 |
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It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he shows that economic success did not necessarily come through any innate entrepreneurial skills, but through identifying and exploiting economic niches in the pre-modern economy—in particular, the monopoly on the sale of grain alcohol. Jewish economic activity was a key factor in the development of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it greatly enhanced the incomes, and thereby the social and political status, of the noble magnates, including the powerful Radziwiłł family. In turn, with the magnate's backing, Jews were able to leverage their own economic success into high status in estate society. Over time, relations within Jewish society began to change, putting less value on learning and pedigree and more on wealth and connections with the estate owners. This groundbreaking book exemplifies how the study of Jewish economic history can shed light on a crucial mechanism of Jewish social integration. In the Polish-Lithuanian setting, Jews were simultaneously a despised religious minority and key economic players, with a consequent standing that few could afford to ignore.
The Lords Jews
Author | : Murray Jay Rosman |
Publsiher | : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066055453 |
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Rosman shows the influence of the Jews on economic, social, and political life in the Polish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian territories, and offers new perspectives on their relations with magnates. He draws on Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish sources and literature to detail the socioeconomic development of early modern Europe's largest Jewish community.