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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524854803321

Autore

Hundert Gershon David <1946-2023.>

Titolo

The Jews in a Polish Private Town : The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century / / Gershon David Hundert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

1-4214-3626-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages :) : illustrations, maps)

Collana

Johns Hopkins Jewish studies

Soggetti

Jews - Social conditions - History

Geschichte (1700-1800)

Juden

Joden

Jews

Ethnic relations

Jews - Poland - Opatow (Wojewodztwo Swietokrzyskie) - History - 18th century

History

Poland

Juden

Opatow

Poland Opatow (Wojewodztwo Swietokrzyskie)

Poland, Kielce, Opatow (Opatow) Jewish history

Opatow (Wojewodztwo Swietokrzyskie, Poland) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1992

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Numbers -- The Town and the Jewish Community before 1700 -- Jews and Other Poles -- Jews in the Economy -- Jewish Society -- The Jewish



Community -- Authority in the Jewish Community -- Power and the Jewish Community -- Afterword -- Appendix: The Privilege of the Jewish Community of Opatow -- Appendix 2: Measures, Weights, and Money

Sommario/riassunto

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 Opatow, 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.