Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity

by Gershon David Hundert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249941
• ISBN13: 9780520249943
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"