TY - JOUR
TI - Jewish Toll Collectors in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
AU - Cieśla, Maria
TI - Jewish Toll Collectors in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
AB - 
	The purpose of this article is to show the Jewish involvement in the tolln collection in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The following aspects are explored: the legal position, the financial involvement, and conditions of the everyday work of the Jewish toll collectors, as well as the conflicts connected with this profession. The author based her research upon mostly unknown primary sources, including Lithuanian Treasury documents and different court acts. Upon examination of those sources it becomes clear that the Jews played a significant role in the tax collection in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in that period. What is more, not only members of the economic elite were involved in the cooperation with the state treasury.
VL - 2017
IS - Special English Issue (2017)
PY - 2017
SN - 1506-9729
C1 - 2450-0100
SP - 25
EP - 44
DO - 10.4467/24500100STJ.16.018.7370
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-judaica/artykul/jewish-toll-collectors-in-the-grand-duchy-of-lithuania-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries
KW - Jewish toll collectors
KW - Jewish economic elites