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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14: Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14: Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands

Polonsky, Antony

Paperback

Series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Book 14

JudaismEastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1874774706
ISBN13: 9781874774709
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Oct 1 2001
Pages: 478
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1569, covered a wide spectrum of faiths and languages. The nobility, who were the main focus of Polishness, were predominantly Catholic, particularly from the later seventeenth century; the peasantry included Catholics, Protestants, and members of the Orthodox faith, while nearly half the urban population, and some 10 per cent of the total population, was Jewish. The partition of Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the subsequent struggle to regain Polish independence raised the question of what the boundaries of a future state should be, and who qualified as a Pole. The partitioning powers, for their part, were determined to hold on to the areas they had annexed: Prussia tried to strengthen the German element in Poland; the Habsburgs encouraged the development of a Ukrainian consciousness in Austrian Galicia to act as a counterweight to the dominant Polish nobility; and Russia, while allowing the Kingdom of Poland to

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