The Jews in a Polish Private Town The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century

• Main Author: Hundert, Gershon David (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: Social & cultural history
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 entir...