- 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
Over the Border
Over the Border
Refugee Settlement in the Empire’s Eastern Regions
- Chapter:
- (p.231) Chapter Twenty-Two Over the Border
- Source:
- Rescue the Surviving Souls
- Author(s):
Adam Teller
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter studies refugee settlement in the Holy Roman Empire's eastern regions. The Swedish invasion of Poland began during the first week of July of 1655, sparking a flight of refugees across the Commonwealth's western border to the neighboring region of Silesia. Even before the Swedish army arrived, a group of Jews from Great Poland wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg Ferdinand III, asking permission to enter his territory. However, the Swedish army got to them before Ferdinand's response, so they were forced to cross into Silesia without permission. Once there, they wrote a second letter to the emperor in which they gave a moving description of their sufferings. The emperor gave them the permission they wanted on August 22. These two documents—the Jews' letter and the emperor's response—deepen one's understanding of the refugee experience in the mid-1650s in a number of ways. The Jews' letter suggests that even in cases where a central authority in the Commonwealth was willing to allow the Jewish refugees to return, there were still hostile local forces trying to prevent them from doing so. Meanwhile, the emperor's response indicates that the refugees' choice to make for Silesia, Bohemia, and Moravia as safe havens was a function not only of those regions' geographical proximity to Poland but of the generous terms of travel and settlement that Jews were granted there.
Keywords: refugee settlement, Holy Roman Empire, Swedish invasion, Poland, Ferdinand III, refugee experience, Jewish refugees, Silesia, Bohemia, Moravia
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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
