The Jews of Poland
Subtitle: a social and economic history of the Jewish community in Poland from 1100 to 1800
By: by Bernard D. Weinryb
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Jews; History
Notes: Bibliography: p.[403]-409; index p. [411]-424.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the background; title: Poland; title: Geography and economics; title: Social structure; title: Nobility; title: Church; title: Cities; title: The Peasants; title: The Jews; title: The actual Jew and the theological Jew; title: After World War II; title: I. Beginnings: Middle Ages; title: Immigration and settlement; title: Legal and political situation; title: Economic and social structure; title: Jewish community organization; title: The medieval Polish Jew; title: II. Growth, rooting, and expansion; title: Background, Jewish population and settlement; title: Legal status, theory, and practice; title: Poland through the eyes of Polish Jews; title: III. Events and trends; title: The catastrophe: Cossack uprising in 1648 and its aftermath; title: Messianism: the Sabbatai Zevi upheaval and its impact; title: Messianism's aftereffect: Jacob Frank and Frankism; title: Hassidim and Hassidism