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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14 : Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands by Antony Polonsky; Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England),; American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies,; Littman Library of Jewish Civilization is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, created in 1569, covered a wide spectrum of faiths and languages. The nobility, who were the main focus of Polishness, were predominantly Catholic, particularly from the later seventeenth century; the peasantry included Catholics, Protestants, and members of the Orthodox faith, while nearly half the urban population, and some 10 per cent of the total population, was Jewish. The partition of Poland at the end of the eighteenth century and the subsequent struggle to regain Polish independence raised the question of what the boundaries of a future state should be, and who qualified as a Pole. The partitioning powers, for their part, were determined to hold on to the areas they had annexed: Prussia tried to strengthen the German element in Poland; the Habsburgs encouraged the development of a Ukrainian consciousness in Austrian Galicia to act as a counterweight to the dominant Polish nobility; and Russia, while allowing the Kingdom of Poland to enjoy substantial autonomy, treated the remaining areas it had annexed as part of the tsarist monarchy. When Poland became independent after the First World War more than a third of its population were thus Uk

Who reads Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14 : Focusing on Jews in the Polish Borderlands?

Author

Antony Polonsky; Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (Oxford, England),; American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies,; Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Publisher

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781874774693

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science