The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatow in the Eighteenth Century / In the eighteenth century more than half of the jews in the world lived in Poland-Lithuania, and most of the Jews in that commonwealth lived in nibility-owned 'private'holdings like the town of Opatow. There they engaged in a variety of crafts and trades-from commerce, to textiles, to the manufacture and sale of alcohol. In many towns, as the economic downturn of the early eighteenth century worsened, Jews came to be virtually the only economically active element of the population.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Poland--Jews--History,medieval--To1789.
Classification	943.84 HUN
Publisher	Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
Subject	Poland--Jews--History, medieval--To 1789.Jews--Poland--Opatow (Tarnobrzeg)--History--18th century.Opatow (Tarnobrzeg, Poland)--Ethnic relations.
Description	242
ISBN	9780801842733
URL	https://www.abebooks.com/9780801842733/Jews-Polish-Private-Town-Case-0801842735/plphttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ajs-review/article/gershon-david-hundert-the-jews-in-a-polish-private-town-the-case-of-opatow-in-the-eighteenth-century-johns-hopkins-jewish-studies-baltimore-john-hopkins-university-press-1992-xvi-242-pp/6AA261475C16D536739FDD397BC4DD62

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The book's great and lasting value lies... in the consistently high standard of research which has gone into it. This will insure that Hundert's study will become a sine qua non for all those interested in studying... the history of the Jews in Poland and the role of Jews in Polish history." -