Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 15: Focusing on Jewish Religious Life, 1500-1900

by Antony Polonsky

This volume highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774722
• ISBN13: 9781874774723
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"