Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century : a genealogy of modernity

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century : a genealogy of modernity /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-2023
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Subjects:
Jews > Poland > History > 18th century.
Jews > Poland > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Jews > Poland > Social conditions > 18th century.
Jews > Lithuania > History > 18th century.
Jews > Lithuania > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Jews > Lithuania > Social conditions > 18th century.
Mysticism > Judaism > History > 18th century.
Hasidism > Europe, Eastern > History > 18th century.
Poland > Ethnic relations
Lithuania > Ethnic relations
Table of Contents:
  • The largest Jewish community in the world
  • Economic integration
  • The Polish church and Jews, Polish Jews and the Church
  • The community
  • Was there a communal "crisis" in the eighteenth century?
  • The popularization of kabbalah
  • Mystic ascetics and religious radicals
  • The contexts of Hasidism, a new path
  • Jews and the Sejm.

Similar Items