Jewish Toll Collectors in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Studia Judaica, 2016, No 2 (38), pp. 229-249
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.011.6222Authors
The purpose of this article is to show the Jewish involvement in the toll 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 Lituania in that period. What is more, not only members of the economic elite were involved in the cooperation with the state treasury
Information: Studia Judaica, 2016, No 2 (38), pp. 229-249
Article type: Original scientific article
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German Historical Institute Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN
Published at: 31.03.2017
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