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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century a genealogy of modernity /

Main Author: Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Subjects:
Jews > History > 18th century. > Poland
Jews > Economic conditions > 18th century. > Poland
Jews > Social conditions > 18th century. > Poland
Jews > History > 18th century. > Lithuania
Jews > Economic conditions > 18th century. > Lithuania
Jews > Social conditions > 18th century. > Lithuania
Mysticism > Judaism > 18th century. > History
Hasidism > History > 18th century. > Europe, Eastern
Poland > Ethnic relations.
Lithuania > Ethnic relations.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10058546
Table of 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.

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