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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

A Genealogy of Modernity

By: Gershon David Hundert

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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

A Genealogy of Modernity

By: Gershon David Hundert

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520238443

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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

A Genealogy of Modernity

By: Gershon David Hundert

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A Genealogy of Modernity

By: Gershon David Hundert

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.

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0520940326

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9780520940321

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

By: Gershon David Hundert

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The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

By: Gershon David Hundert

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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JHU Press

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1421436272

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The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

By: Gershon David Hundert

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The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

By: Gershon David Hundert

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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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421436264

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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

The Jews in a Polish Private Town

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