Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century : a genealogy of modernity / Gershon David Hundert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-2023.

Series:

S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--History--18th century.

Jews.

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.

Mysticism.

Hasidism--Europe, Eastern--History--18th century.

Hasidism.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Poland.

Lithuania--Ethnic relations.

Lithuania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world-an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization-in short, of westernization-that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"-an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.

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

Hasidism, a new path

Jews and the Sejm.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612358777

9781282358775

1282358774

9780520940321

0520940326

9781597346931

1597346934

OCLC:

475933631