Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Przegląd Historyczny
Angaben zur Quelle:
80,4 (1989) 791-799
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jews Economic conditions 1500-
;
Antisemitism History 16th century
;
Antisemitism History 17th century
;
Gdańsk (Poland)
Abstract:
Gdańsk was an important trade center in the 16th-17th centuries, and it attracted Jewish traders from various provinces in Poland and from Western Europe. The Jewish traders were supported by the nobility due to their significant role in the development of trade, but the Gdańsk burghers fought for the expulsion or limitation of Jews in the town. Surveys consecutive decrees which either permitted or forbade the Jews to trade in Gdańsk in this period. States that the main excuse for discriminatory statutes was to avert economic competition; however, there were also religious arguments in support of removal of the Jews, including ritual murder accusations.
Note:
With an English summary.
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Appeared in English as "Jewish merchants in Gdańsk in the 16th-17th centuries; a policy of toleration or discrimination?" in "Acta Poloniae Historica" 65 (1992) 47-57.
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