The Jews in a Polish Private Town : The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century / / Gershon David Hundert.

• Author: Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-2023.
• Language: English
• Series: Johns Hopkins Jewish studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages :); illustrations, maps)
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1992

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 J...