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Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity

Hundert, Gershon David

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0520249941
ISBN13: 9780520249943
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Aug 16 2006
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world--an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century.

The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization--in short, of westernization--that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more internal developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a core Jewish identity--an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.

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