The Jews In A Polish Private Town
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| Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2019-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421436272 |
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.
| Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2004-02-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520940326 |
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.
| Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2004-02-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520238443 |
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.
| Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
| Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gershon D. Hundert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1984-01-01 |
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| ISBN | : 9780783796543 |
| Author | : Gershon David Hundert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Jews |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Antony Polonsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This volume examines the issues faced by Poland's Jewish community between the two world wars. It covers the debate on the character and strength of antisemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans.
| Author | : Eva Hoffman |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2007-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1586485245 |
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence--still relevant to us today-- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.
| Author | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2014-03-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1400851165 |
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.
| Author | : Eva Hoffman |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780395924877 |
Throws new light on the motives that influenced Polish Christian villagers' decisions to rescue or betray their Jewish neighbors when the Nazis invaded.
