- 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
Transregional Contexts
Transregional Contexts
- Chapter:
- (p.191) Chapter Seventeen Transregional Contexts
- Source:
- Rescue the Surviving Souls
- Author(s):
Adam Teller
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter examines how the transregional aspects of the captive crisis gave it great significance for the Jewish world. The appearance on the slave markets of Istanbul of thousands of Jews, destitute and desperate, as well as the news coming in of the enormous destruction in Poland–Lithuania and the stream of emissaries and refugees traveling from town to town in search of help, forced Jewish communities across Europe to make a concerted effort to step up their charitable activity on their behalf. At the heart of all the activity was a transregional fundraising network run by the Jewish communities of Venice, the major Jewish center in the eastern Mediterranean. The Polish crisis put this system under great pressure. The calls on it multiplied and came from a number of different directions. Averse to turning away these needy Jews empty-handed, it adopted the policy it used for supporting the Jewish communities in the Land of Israel. The needs of the Polish Jewish captives challenged the fundraising network in other ways. For example, the fundraising crossed the cultural border within Jewish society, since Sephardi Jews were being called on to support Ashkenazim. Even more striking, however, was the way the network positioned itself vis-à-vis the political borders of Europe and the Mediterranean world. These were, perhaps, the first steps toward the development of an institutional Jewish world.
Keywords: captive crisis, Jewish world, Poland–Lithuania, Jewish refugees, Jewish communities, transregional fundraising network, Polish Jewish captives, Jewish 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
