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Publication date: 31.03.2017

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Digitalizacja czasopisma „Studia Judaica” Vol. 19 (2016) nr 2 (38) oraz tłumaczenie
na język angielski, proof-reading i redakcja tekstów anglojęzycznych zostały
sfinansowane w ramach umowy Nr 620/P-DUN/2016 ze środków Ministra Nauki
i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.

Licence: None

Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Stanisława Golinowska

Assistant Editor-in-chief: Orcid Stefan Gąsiorowski

Secretary Artur Markowski

Issue content

Stefan Gąsiorowski

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 195 - 197


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Anat Vaturi

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 199 - 214

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.009.6220

The article discusses royal privileges granted to the Jews in Old Poland and examines the jurisdiction over Jews from the new perspective of relations with Polish customary law—“Law of the Land.” More precisely, it analyzes the content and procedures of the clauses guaranteeing Jewish physical security and shows their connection with land law and the practice of district courts, a connection that contributed to the incorporation of the Jews into the Polish legal system and practice.

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Judith Kalik

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 215 - 228

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.010.6221

Jews often appear in Christian polemical literature as clichéd archheretics in the context of inter-confessional Christian polemics, rather than for their own sake, in a polemic directed against Judaism itself. In the multiethnic and multi-religious Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth political conflicts often took the form of religious polemics, and religion served as a central channel for expressing not only religious feelings but also national and political identity. The use of Jews in polemical literature was widespread and can be found in Orthodox polemics directed against the union with Rome, Uniates’ defense of the union, Catholic-Protestant polemics in the context of the Counter-Reformation and in other contexts. This paper examines such use of Jews in inter confessional Christian polemics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Maria Cieśla

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 229 - 249

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.011.6222

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 Lithuania in that period. What is more, not only members of the economic elite were involved in the cooperation with the state treasury

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Stefan Gąsiorowski

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 251 - 273

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.012.6223
Monastery chronicles from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth provide valuable insight not only into the history of individual orders and the Polish clergy in general, but also into the history of mentality, daily life and religious and ethnic minorities. Although references to Jews are rather sporadic in such chronicles, they are nevertheless quite diverse and concern almost all aspects of Jewish activity in Poland and abroad. Therefore, they can serve as an excellent complement to other sources in the field, including Jewish ones, and those of various secular institutions and offices. It should be noted, however, that the credibility of the information contained in monastery chronicles is always dependent on the distance in time and space between the chronicler and the described events and should—if possible—be verified against other documentary sources from the
same period.
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Jerzy Kroczak

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 275 - 299

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.013.6224
Benedykt Chmielowski (1700–1763), a Catholic priest, the author of the New Athens encyclopaedia (extended edition: Lwów 1754–1756) included in his polyhistorical work plenty of information on issues related to Jews. The article discusses these issues and connects their specificity with the character of different parts of the work in which Chmielowski placed them as well as with the detected and secret sources of his knowledge about Jews (especially books by Early Modern scholars) and the ways he dealt with those sources. The author of the article also shows Chmielowski’s writing strategies, placing New Athens in the tradition of baroque encyclopaedism—a literary production typical of the previous epoch.
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Maciej Szkółka

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 301 - 316

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.014.6225

An unprecedented event took place in the Russian Empire in the second half of 1738. In the main square of St. Petersburg, a Jewish merchant, Boroch Leibov, and a Russian navy captain-lieutenant, Alexander Voznitsyn, were burned alive at the stake. Voznitsyn had met Leibov while staying in Moscow. Impressed by the teachings of his new acquaintance, he decided to convert to Judaism. The reason for this decision was probably the mental illness of the captain or his unconfirmed family ties with the fifteenth-century heresy of the Judaizers. Based on the Sobornoye Ulozheniye decree, both of them were sentenced to public burning for withdrawal from the Orthodox faith and blasphemy, in the case of  Voznitsyn, and for persuading an Orthodox man to withdraw from his faith, in the case of Leibov. The trial of Boroch and Voznitsyn was widely reported in the whole Russian Empire and became the cause of rapid changes in the policy toward the Jews. Both Empress Anna Ioannovna, and after 1740 her successor, Elizabeth Petrovna, signed a number of decrees ordering the Jews to leave the borders of the Russian Empire.

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Piotr J. Wróbel

Studia Judaica, No 2 (38), 2016, pp. 317 - 330

https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.015.6226
Po II wojnie światowej Polska stała się państwem jednolitym etnicznie. Mniejszości narodowe pozostały na terenach znajdujących się za przesuniętą granicą wschodnią, a ich członkowie w znacznej mierze ulegli eksterminacji, zostali zmuszeni do wyjazdu lub przesiedleni i rozproszeni na tzw. Ziemiach Odzyskanych. Narzucone Polsce władze zadbały, aby zanikła także pamięć o mniejszościach. Z wielu powodów szczególnie starannie i z dużym powodzeniem wymazywano pamięć o Żydach. Nie wiedziały o nich prawie nic dwa pokolenia młodych Polaków. Starsi unikali na ogół tego tematu. Sytuacja zmieniła się wraz z dezintegracją autorytarnego systemu rządzenia w Polsce. Wytworzona przez cenzurę i naciski polityczne intelektualna i informacyjna próżnia szybko się wypełniła. Od połowy lat osiemdziesiątych XX w. coraz więcej Polaków interesowało się historią Żydów, również liczba publikacji na ten temat rosła lawinowo. Obecnie Polska jest obok Stanów Zjednoczonych i Izraela jednym z najważniejszych światowych centrów badań nad przeszłością Żydów.
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