In this Book
- The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
- Program:
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Winner of the Montreal Jewish Public Library's J. I. Segal PrizeOriginally 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 Jews in a Polish Private Town seeks to investigate the social, economic, and political history of Jews in Opatów, a private Polish town, in the context of an increasing power and influence of private towns at the expense of the Polish crown and gentry in the eighteenth century. Hundert recovers an important community from historical obscurity by providing a balanced perspective on the Jewish experience in the Polish Commonwealth and by describing the special dimensions of Jewish life in a private town.
Table of Contents


- Half Title
- p. i
- Series Page
- p. ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xvi
- The Jews in a Polish Private Town
- 1. Numbers
- pp. 1-12
- 3. Jews and Other Poles
- pp. 36-45
- 4. Jews in the Economy
- pp. 46-68
- 5. Jewish Society
- pp. 69-84
- 6. The Jewish Community
- pp. 85-115
- 7. Authority in the Jewish Community
- pp. 116-133
- 8. Power and the Jewish Community
- pp. 134-155
- Appendix 2: Measures, Weights, and Money
- pp. 163-164
- Works Cited
- pp. 209-226
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 227-229
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421436289
Related ISBN(s)
9780801842733, 9781421436265, 9781421436272
MARC Record
OCLC
1127884893
Pages
262
Launched on MUSE
2019-11-17
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND