Although Jews typically are viewed as urban dwellers, there was a considerable rural Jewish population in early modern Eastern Europe. The census of Jews in the Polish crown lands conducted in 1764-65 indicated that, of the total number of Jews in the […]
About Judith Kalik
Dr. Kalik is interested mainly in the history of Eastern Europe in the early modern age and in the middle ages with the emphasis on the economic, cultural and religious interaction between the Jewish and non-Jewish population of this region. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem based upon her thesis entitled
"The Catholic Church and the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th Centuries". Among her publications are "The Polish Nobility and the Jews in the Dietine Legislation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Studies of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews), Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1997, 90 pp. (Hebrew), and "Scepter of Judah. Jewish Autonomy in the Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland" (Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2009), 404 pp. (English), in addition to chapters in numerous publications as described on her Web site at http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/templates/staff_details.php?cat=743&incat=740&id=5379&act=view&tui=740