Scepter of Judah : the Jewish autonomy in the eighteenth-century Crown Poland / by Judith Kalik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḳaliḳ, Yehudit.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica ; v. 2.

Studia Judaeoslavica, 1876-6153 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Jews--Poland--Politics and government.

Jews--Poland--Social conditions--18th century.

Jews--Government policy--Poland--History--Sources.

Taxation--Poland--Lists.

Taxation.

Poland--Politics and government--18th century.

Poland.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The development of Jewish autonomy

The structure of Jewish autonomy

Jewish demography and geography

The administrative structure of the urban Jewish population

The administrative structure of the rural Jewish population

The "leaseholders' belt"

Jewish political leadership

A case study: the Jewish subjects of Kazimierz Granowski, Voivode of Rawa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-94921-7

9786612949210

90-04-18119-9

OCLC:

700941866

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004166011.i-404 DOI