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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity

2004 Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 0520238443 ;ISBN: 9780520238442 ;ISBN: 0520249941 ;ISBN: 9780520249943 ;EISBN: 0520940326 ;EISBN: 9780520940321 ;OCLC: 475933631 ;LCCallNum: DS135.P6 H85 2004

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  • Title:
    Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity
  • Author: Hundert, Gershon David
  • Subjects: 18th century ; Early modern history ; Eastern Europe ; Economic conditions ; Ethnic relations ; Europe, Eastern ; Hasidism ; History ; Interethnic relations ; Jews ; Judaism ; Lithuania ; Mysticism ; Poland ; Religion ; Social conditions
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2004
  • Format: 305
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0520238443
    ISBN: 9780520238442
    ISBN: 0520249941
    ISBN: 9780520249943
    EISBN: 0520940326
    EISBN: 9780520940321
    OCLC: 475933631
    LCCallNum: DS135.P6 H85 2004
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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