Scepter of Judah

The Jewish Autonomy in the Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-16601-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Reihe: Studia Judaeoslavica

Polish-Lithuanian Jewry was the center of the early modern Jewish world, and the most outstanding symbol of its glory was the famous Jewish autonomy. In spite of the considerable attention that scholars have paid to the Council of the Four Lands, surprisingly little information was available from the Jewish autonomous institutions in the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth. This changed, however, with the discovery of the complete corpus of Jewish poll-tax lists from 1717-1764. The present book is based upon the analysis of these new sources which supply a diachronic dimension, about half a century in duration, to systematic data about the Jewish population in Poland. It provides the full statistical information in the form of tables and is supplemented with a series of maps.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalik, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter One The Development of Jewish Autonomy
Chapter Two The Structure of Jewish Autonomy
Chapter Three Jewish Demography and Geography
Chapter Four The Administrative Structure of the Urban
Jewish Population
Chapter Five The Administrative Structure of the Rural
Jewish Population
Chapter Six The “Leaseholders’ Belt”
Chapter Seven Jewish Political Leadership
Chapter Eight A Case Study: The Jewish Subjects of
Kazimierz Granowski, Voivode of Rawa
Chapter Nine Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Kalik, PhD (1998) in History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She published extensively on the Jewish history in the early modern age in Eastern Europe including The Polish Nobility and the Jews in the Dietine Legislation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in Hebrew, Magnes Press, 1997).