The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

by Gershon David Hundert

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421436264
• ISBN13: 9781421436265
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"