- 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 Trickle before the Flood
The Trickle before the Flood
Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648–1654
- Chapter:
- (p.215) Chapter Twenty The Trickle before the Flood
- Source:
- Rescue the Surviving Souls
- Author(s):
Adam Teller
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter focuses on the Jewish refugees in the Holy Roman Empire in 1648–1654. Though the vast majority of the Jews fleeing the Khmelnytsky uprising preferred to remain within the Commonwealth, there is evidence of Polish Jewish refugees in the empire from as early as 1649. There are no relevant data concerning Jewish refugees in Silesia before 1654, but it seems clear that Jewish refugees from Poland, together with displaced local Jews looking for a new home, were active in repopulating the towns in Bohemia and Moravia at that time. Since Jews had long been seen as important sources of income for their lords, there had often been power struggles for control over them between the monarch and the nobility. Thus, there was more going on than anti-Jewish legislation. In his orders of 1650, the king of Bohemia may have been continuing his efforts to put a brake on the nobility by depriving it of one of its sources of income: Jews. The chapter then considers the relationship between the Jewish refugee society and the local Jewish society. It also shows the limits of mercantilism, looking at the Polish Jews in Brandenburg.
Keywords: Jewish refugees, Holy Roman Empire, Polish Jewish refugees, Bohemia, Moravia, Jews, anti-Jewish legislation, Jewish refugee society, local Jewish society, mercantilism
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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
