The Jews in Poland

by C. Abramsky and Antony Polonsky

By the end of the 17th century probably three quarters of world Jewry dwelt within the borders of the Polish republic, which became not only a haven from persecution but the centre of a flourishing Jewish culture. This culture survived the decline and partition of the Polish state and in the 19th century became the seedbed for the intellectual movements that were to transform the Jewish world - zionism, secularism, socialism and neo-orthodoxy. With...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631148574
• ISBN13: 9780631148579
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.