Neopalimaja kupina
Abstracts
The burning bush. Jewish communities of Podolia, a century after Khmel’nitskii’s insurrection. – The size of the Jewish population of Ukraine in the first half of the seventeenth century and the death rate among Jewish communities during the Polish-Cossack wars remain the subject of scholarly dispute, particularly in view of the relatively high Jewish population recorded in the Polish census of Jews in 1764. The present article examines demographic changes in the Podolia and Bratslav provinces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the century after the Cossack revolt of 1648-1649 in the context of the historical events in the region. Our study of the sharply changing size of the Jewish population encompasses 1) the eve and the duration of the Polish-Cossack wars (1648-1672), 2) the Ottoman occupation of the area (1672-1699), and 3) the subsequent rebuilding of Podolian towns and settlements under Polish rule. For this purpose, for the first time, extensive use has been made of both published and archival sources such as: Jewish chronicles and martyrologies, rabbinic responsa, tax records, documentation relating to royal and private estates, and travelers accounts. The use of economic inventories of the holdings of Polish magnates and records of the poll taxes Jewish communities were required to pay also helps clarify the dynamics of the revival of Jewish life in Podolia in the first half of the eighteenth century.
References
Bibliographical reference
Benyamin Lukin, “Neopalimaja kupina”, Cahiers du monde russe, 41/4 | 2000, 451-494.
Electronic reference
Benyamin Lukin, “Neopalimaja kupina”, Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 41/4 | 2000, Online since 15 January 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/54; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.54
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