Title Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages) Contents Maps; Tables; Preface; A Note on Place-Names and Transliteration; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Largest Jewish Community in the World: When Is a Minority Not a Minority?; 2 Economic Integration; 3 The Polish Church and Jews, Polish Jews and the Church; 4 The Community; 5 Was There a Communal "Crisis" in the Eighteenth Century?; 6 The Popularization of Kabbalah; 7 Mystic Ascetics and Religious Radicals; 8 The Contexts of Hasidism; 9 Hasidism, a New Path; 10 Jews and the Sejm; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Jews -- Poland -- History -- 18th century Jews -- Poland -- Economic conditions -- 18th century Jews -- Poland -- Social conditions -- 18th century Jews -- Lithuania -- History -- 18th century Jews -- Lithuania -- Economic conditions -- 18th century Jews -- Lithuania -- Social conditions -- 18th century Mysticism -- Judaism -- History -- 18th century Hasidism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century Ethnic relations Hasidism Jews Jews -- Economic conditions Jews -- Social conditions Mysticism -- Judaism SUBJECT Poland -- Ethnic relations Lithuania -- Ethnic relations Subject Eastern Europe Lithuania Poland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520940321 0520940326 1282358774 9781282358775

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