{"product_id":"jews-in-poland-lithuania-in-the-eighteenth-century-a-genealogy-of-modernity-paperback","title":"Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGershon David Hundert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMissing 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e provides a wide-ranging synthesis of the current scholarship on Polish-Lithuanian Jewry. Gershon David Hundert's control of the secondary literature is magnificent: he incorporates the findings of over a century of research up to and including the most recent works in every relevant language. Only a handful of scholars in the world today could approach this level of mastery.--Benjamin Nathans, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gershon David Hundert's \u003ci\u003eJews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to be viewed as the standard scholarly survey of the topic of 'classic' Polish Jewry for years to come.\"--Moshe Rosman, author of \u003ci\u003eFounder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGershon David Hundert\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Jewish Studies and History at McGill University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century \u003c\/i\u003e(1992), the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays \u003c\/i\u003e(1984), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eJews in Early Modern Poland \u003c\/i\u003e(1997) and \u003ci\u003eEssential Papers on Hasidism: Origins to Present \u003c\/i\u003e(1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 305\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52988026716467,"sku":"9780520249943","price":68.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OOyEptllf59780520249943.webp?v=1769072657","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/jews-in-poland-lithuania-in-the-eighteenth-century-a-genealogy-of-modernity-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}