Description
Product ID: | 9780691161747 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Rescue the Surviving Souls |
Subtitle: | The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century |
Authors: | Author: Adam Teller |
Page Count: | 408 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, Middle Eastern history, Judaism, Refugees and political asylum, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Middle Eastern history, Judaism, Refugees & political asylum, Jewish studies, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and Nor |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-04-14 |