Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth: Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Volume One

Critical edition of original Latin, Polish and German documents with English Introductions and notes.

by Jacob Goldberg

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Extent: 509 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Jewish Studies

Series: Fontes ad Res Judaicas Spectantes

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1985)

ISBN: 9789652080721

Price: $38.00

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The privileges granted to the Jewish communities in the old Polish Commonwealth played a vital role in the history of Polish Jewry and yield valuable historical information. The present collection reproduces the texts of 63 community privileges, of which 53 are from archives and manuscript collections in Poland.

  • By (author) Jacob Goldberg

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