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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century : a genealogy of modernity / Gershon David Hundert.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2004.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520940321
  • 0520940326
  • 9780520238442
  • 0520238443
  • 1282358774
  • 9781282358775
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 943.8/004924 21
LOC classification:
  • DS135.P6 H85 2004eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.

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