- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter One The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews -
Chapter Two The Chaos of War -
Chapter Three The Refugees outside Ukraine -
Chapter Four Facing the Refugee Experience -
Chapter Five The Second Wave of Wars -
Chapter Six Return and Reconstruction -
Chapter Seven Resolution -
Chapter Eight Introduction -
Chapter Nine The Captives -
Chapter Ten From Crimea to Istanbul -
Chapter Eleven Ransoming Captives -
Chapter Twelve On the Istanbul Slave Market -
Chapter Thirteen David Carcassoni’s Mission to Europe -
Chapter Fourteen The Role of Italian Jewry -
Chapter Fifteen The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism -
Chapter Sixteen The Fate of the Ransomed -
Chapter Seventeen Transregional Contexts -
Chapter Eighteen Introduction -
Chapter Nineteen Background -
Chapter Twenty The Trickle before the Flood -
Chapter Twenty-One On the Road -
Chapter Twenty-Two Over the Border -
Chapter Twenty-Three Polish Jews Meet German Jews -
Chapter Twenty-Four Amsterdam -
Chapter Twenty-Five Starting New Lives -
Chapter Twenty-Six The End of the Crisis - Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
The Fate of the Ransomed
The Fate of the Ransomed
- Chapter:
- (p.180) Chapter Sixteen The Fate of the Ransomed
- Source:
- Rescue the Surviving Souls
- Author(s):
Adam Teller
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter discusses what happened to the Polish Jewish captives once they had been ransomed and released. Most sought to return home at the first opportunity. Without a patron, however, this was not easy. The captives had been brutally snatched from their previous lives and so, once freed, had little or no resources on which to rely. The religious obligation of the local Jewish society toward them ended with their ransom; once they had been freed, they were largely on their own and had to make their own way home—an extremely difficult, often impossible, proposition. There is no way to tell just what proportion of the ransomed captives managed to return home, though the desire to do so seems to have been fairly widespread. Still, there were those who simply could not manage it. The financial difficulties, the physical danger of long-distance travel, and the continuing threat of pirates in the Mediterranean must have deterred many, especially women, who often opted to stay and start new lives. The chapter then considers the refugee information network, the problems of identification, and the cultural contacts between Ashkenazi refugees and the Sephardi society.
Keywords: Polish Jewish captives, Jewish society, ransomed captives, Jewish women, refugee information network, identification problems, Ashkenazi refugees, Sephardi society
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter One The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews -
Chapter Two The Chaos of War -
Chapter Three The Refugees outside Ukraine -
Chapter Four Facing the Refugee Experience -
Chapter Five The Second Wave of Wars -
Chapter Six Return and Reconstruction -
Chapter Seven Resolution -
Chapter Eight Introduction -
Chapter Nine The Captives -
Chapter Ten From Crimea to Istanbul -
Chapter Eleven Ransoming Captives -
Chapter Twelve On the Istanbul Slave Market -
Chapter Thirteen David Carcassoni’s Mission to Europe -
Chapter Fourteen The Role of Italian Jewry -
Chapter Fifteen The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism -
Chapter Sixteen The Fate of the Ransomed -
Chapter Seventeen Transregional Contexts -
Chapter Eighteen Introduction -
Chapter Nineteen Background -
Chapter Twenty The Trickle before the Flood -
Chapter Twenty-One On the Road -
Chapter Twenty-Two Over the Border -
Chapter Twenty-Three Polish Jews Meet German Jews -
Chapter Twenty-Four Amsterdam -
Chapter Twenty-Five Starting New Lives -
Chapter Twenty-Six The End of the Crisis - Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
