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Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century a genealogy of modernity / [electronic resource] : Gershon David Hundert. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xix, 286 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History--Poland--18th century.
Jews--Economic conditions--Poland--18th century.
Jews--Social conditions--Poland--18th century.
Jews--History--Lithuania--18th century.
Jews--Economic conditions--Lithuania--18th century.
Jews--Social conditions--Lithuania--18th century.
Mysticism--Judaism--History--18th century.
Hasidism--History--Europe, Eastern--18th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Poland--Ethnic relations.
Lithuania--Ethnic relations.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS135.P6 / H85 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 943.8/004924