Scepter of Judah

by Kalik, Judith

• ISBN13: 9789004166011
• ISBN10: 9004166017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

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.

Author Biography

Judith Kalik, Ph.D. (1998) in History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published extensively on the Jewish history in the early modern age in Eastern Europe, including The Polish Nobility and the Jews in the Dietine Legislation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in Hebrew, Magnes Press, 1997).

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Development of Jewish Autonomy	p. 9
The Structure of Jewish Autonomy	p. 23
Jewish Demography and Geography	p. 39
The Administrative Structure of the Urban Jewish Population	p. 49
The Administrative Structure of the Rural Jewish Population	p. 77
The "Leaseholders' Belt"	p. 97
Jewish Political Leadership	p. 109
A Case Study: The Jewish Subjects of Kazimierz Granowski, Voivode of Rawa	p. 137
Conclusions	p. 147
Tables to Chapter Two	p. 153
Maps to Chapter Two	p. 357
Abbreviations	p. 375
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 383
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