Leipzig is one of the oldest trading cities in the world and its Trade Fair (Germ. Leipziger Messe) is one of the oldest Trade Fairs in the world. Leipzig was at the crossroads of two important trade routes: Via Regia […]
About Jona Schellekens
Jona Schellekens is Louis & Pearl Rose Professor in Medical Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches a course on genealogy. His wife is a descendant of Lazarus Polatschick, who visited the Leipzig Trade Fair in the 1750s and 1760s. His ancestors also visited the fair, but from Hamburg. He has published two previous articles on the visitors to the fair in Gens Nostra and Misjpoge (in Dutch).