{"product_id":"jews-in-poland-lithuania-in-the-eighteenth-century-a-genealogy-of-modernity-9780520249943","title":"Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity","description":"Missing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2256562\"\u003eGershon David Hundert\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520249943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520249941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS022000\"\u003eJewish | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS010010\"\u003eEastern Europe | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS037050\"\u003eModern | 18th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686677541101,"sku":"9780520249943","price":56.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f326ed32-b416-4ab7-80cf-b2d0545372a9.jpg?v=1703646859","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/jews-in-poland-lithuania-in-the-eighteenth-century-a-genealogy-of-modernity-9780520249943","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}