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1 online resource (1 online resource xvi, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps). |
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text file |
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Johns Hopkins Jewish studies
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Johns Hopkins Jewish studies.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. |
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The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License |
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Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-226) and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
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. |
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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Jews -- Social conditions -- History.
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Jews -- Social conditions. |
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History. |
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Geschichte (1700-1800) |
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Juden. |
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Joden. |
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Jews. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Jews -- Poland -- Opatów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie) -- History -- 18th century.
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Poland -- Opatów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie) |
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18th century |
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Poland.
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Poland. |
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Juden. |
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Opatow. |
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Poland, Kielce, Opatow (Opatow) -- Jewish history. |
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Opatów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
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1700-1799 |
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Geschichte 1700-1800. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books. .
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Project Muse.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hundert, Gershon David, 1946- Jews in a Polish private town. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)609604107 |
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Online version: Hundert, Gershon David, 1946- Jews in a Polish private town. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)555658516 |
| ISBN |
9781421436289 |
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1421436264 |
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9781421436265 |
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1421436280 |
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9781421436272 |
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