TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Jürgen Heyde
T1  - Jews in Poland in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
PY  - 2023/12/07
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/64dcb188edb113.53183654
DA  - 2026/10/14
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - This article offers an overview of Jewish history and the development of Jewish settlement in medieval and early modern Poland, from the first recorded mentions of Jewish centers in the 11th century through to the end of the 18th century. As in the neighboring countries of Hungary and Bohemia, the Polish monarchs were also interested in Jewish settlement; the privilege of 1264 and its confirmations created the legal framework for this. Jews were involved in the economic and demographic development of Poland. The Jewish percentage of the urban population also grew, and their formative influence was particularly visible in the south-eastern provinces, which found expression in the concept of the Jewish "shtetl". In modern times, Poland-Lithuania also became a center of Jewish scholarship. The crises and wars in the mid-17th century brought an influx of messianic movements. In the 18th century, the impulses of the Jewish Enlightenment and the emancipation of the Jewish population were the subject of lengthy and lively discussion.
KW  - Germany
KW  - Poland
KW  - Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
KW  - Brandenburg-Prussia
KW  - Iserleś, Mosheh
KW  - Tsevi, Shabtai
KW  - Frank, Jacob
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Early modern period
KW  - Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
KW  - Holy Roman Empire
KW  - Arenda (legal form)
KW  - Shtetl
KW  - First partition of Poland
KW  - Medieval studies
KW  - Jewish history
KW  - Modern history
KW  - Political history
KW  - Social history 
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25355/qqca-ta10
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/64dcb188edb113.53183654
ER  -