... France, but also from Byzantium, Germany, and the Slavic lands. Several factors contributed to the fame of Rashi's yeshiva and its attractiveness even to scholars from distant parts. These include the growth, albeit gradual, in the Jewish population of Germany and northern France; the ‘twelfth-century...

... century of the Commonwealth's existence, the demographic factor determined Polish attitudes towards the Jews far more than ever before. However, the growth in the demographic potential of the Jewish population coincided with the impact of the ideas of the Enlightenment, with the result that the two...

... particularly against simplification of the question. At the turn of the 16th–17th centuries, according to the author, the Jewish population of the country came to 120,000 and so constituted a sizeable and wealthy minority group. Linda Gordon Cossack rebellions Ukraine Cossack problem Polish-Lithuanian...

... general political program for the Jewish population. Once state officials began to connect Hasidism to the broader issue of the Jewish Question, their interest in the movement greatly increased. The chapter also discusses the investigation of 1823–4 that was more significantly influenced...

... in the Jewish population in the Netherlands, from around 68,000 in 1869 to a peak of more than 115,000 in 1920 and still as many as 112,000 in 1930. A factor in the rapid growth of the Jewish population from 1869 to 1889—faster than that of the total Dutch population—was a drop in death rates. Migration...

... discusses the significant decrease of the Jewish population of Vilna during the First World War, while the Polish population increased. The chapter examines the theory about negative attitudes towards the Poles, which was established a priori under the influence of prevailing anti-Jewish attitudes...

.... Where readmission had already been secured, in the previous period, there was now a further increase in Jewish population, notably in Prague, Frankfurt, Mantua, Venice, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Livorno. This increasing stream of Jewish population and resources into western and central Europe flowed from...

... and Christian Enlightenment representatives on some aspects of marriage in Jewish society, and looks at the incidence of early marriage in the Jewish population and the vicissitudes in the practice of young couples living in the home of their parents. change social among Jews Goldberg Jacob Laslett P...

...This chapter looks at 29 book reviews. The first set of books discusses hasidism in Poland; the history of the Jewish population in lower Silesia after the Second World War; the Jewish communities in eastern Poland and the USSR; Jewish emancipation in Poland; and the memoirs of Holocaust survivors...

...This chapter discusses the Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom. The relations between Poles and Jews and the situation of the Jewish population directly after the end of the Second World War on Polish territory are topics which have only recently been addressed in Polish historiography...

...This chapter looks at the testimony of Rudolf Reder, a survivor of Bełżec death camp. Bełżec murder camp was the first camp set up by Aktion Reinhard, an operation whose purpose was to dispose, in the least obtrusive manner, of the Jewish population of the General Government and adjacent countries...

... the Tarler rebbe. The best explanation for his move from Warsaw to Łódź seems to be that he saw possibilities of self-advancement there that would have been next to impossible in Warsaw. Łódź, which possessed a rapidly growing Jewish population, attracted Jews from all over the Russian...

...This chapter assesses the Progressive synagogue in Lwów. At the time of the founding of the Progressive synagogue, Lwów had the largest Jewish population of all the cities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including Vienna. After the death of the Orthodox rabbi Jacob Ornstein, leadership...

... the modest economic circumstances of the Jewish community. Łódź experienced industrial growth from the 1820s, and there was a substantial increase in its Jewish population. By the end of the 1850s, the ramshackle condition and limited space of the old synagogue on Wolborska Street forced the Jewish community...

... and officials, some of whom indeed sympathized with the Polish desire to rid Poland of what was seen as its ‘excessive’ Jewish population. And of course this notion of ‘excess’ was certainly not limited to antisemites; some Jews themselves, particularly Polish Zionists, shared it. Ultimately, the Polish desire...

... relationship with the regime of Tsar Nicholas I. His achievement in the exercise of historiographical re-evaluation is impressive, exhibiting a richness of content which is taxing to encapsulate in summary. His careful examination of the policy of the tsarist government towards its Jewish population certainly...

... of the Jewish ghetto in a city which before the outbreak of war contained a Jewish population of some 250,000 souls. Lucjan Dobroszycki Łódź ghetto Jewish Council Nazis Jews Nazi policies Nazi authorities Jewish ghetto Jewish population One of the most difficult and painful questions to emerge from...

... into the research about partisans and ghetto fighters that far outweighs their significance and their percentage of the Jewish population in Europe. The chapter investigates the hegemony of armed resistance by introducing the idea of “spiritual resistance,” which encompassed explicitly religious and other actions...

...This chapter explores The Jewish Population of Breslau, 1812–1914. This book is a fragment of a doctoral dissertation by Leszek Ziątkowski. Only the part discussing two key issues in the life of the Breslau Jewish community: its demographic development and its socio-topography...

...This chapter focuses on determining the size of the Orthodox Jewish population in the United States and difficulties related to the problem of estimating the Jewish population as a whole. It analyses the acceptance of the notion of the 'core Jewish population' among social scientists and Jewish...