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Rescue the Surviving Souls : The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century / Adam Teller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 7 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780691204192
  • 9780691199863
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part I. Wartime Chaos and Its Resolution: The Internally Displaced in Eastern Europe -- Part II. Capture, Slavery, and Ransom: The Trafficked in the Mediterranean World -- Part III. Westward: The Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire and Beyond -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Question of Numbers -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index
Summary: A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. “Rescue the Surviving Souls” is the first book to examine this horrific moment of displacement and flight, and to assess its social, economic, religious, cultural, and psychological consequences. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in twelve languages, Adam Teller traces the entire course of the crisis, shedding fresh light on the refugee experience and the various relief strategies developed by the major Jewish centers of the day.Teller pays particular attention to those thousands of Jews sent for sale on the slave markets of Istanbul and the extensive transregional Jewish economic network that coalesced to ransom them. He also explores how Jewish communities rallied to support the refugees in central and western Europe, as well as in Poland-Lithuania, doing everything possible to help them overcome their traumatic experiences and rebuild their lives.“Rescue the Surviving Souls” offers an intimate study of an international refugee crisis, from outbreak to resolution, that is profoundly relevant today.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part I. Wartime Chaos and Its Resolution: The Internally Displaced in Eastern Europe -- Part II. Capture, Slavery, and Ransom: The Trafficked in the Mediterranean World -- Part III. Westward: The Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire and Beyond -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Question of Numbers -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index

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A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. “Rescue the Surviving Souls” is the first book to examine this horrific moment of displacement and flight, and to assess its social, economic, religious, cultural, and psychological consequences. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in twelve languages, Adam Teller traces the entire course of the crisis, shedding fresh light on the refugee experience and the various relief strategies developed by the major Jewish centers of the day.Teller pays particular attention to those thousands of Jews sent for sale on the slave markets of Istanbul and the extensive transregional Jewish economic network that coalesced to ransom them. He also explores how Jewish communities rallied to support the refugees in central and western Europe, as well as in Poland-Lithuania, doing everything possible to help them overcome their traumatic experiences and rebuild their lives.“Rescue the Surviving Souls” offers an intimate study of an international refugee crisis, from outbreak to resolution, that is profoundly relevant today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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