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Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
2021Abstract One of the hallmarks of modern diaspora studies is the dichotomy of a “homeland” and “hostland” in relation to a diasporic group. The history of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth complicates these contemporary categories. The multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Commonwealth was a homeland for Polish Jews.
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: history, memory, legacy
Canadian Slavonic PapersZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 73 Nr. 3 (2024)
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The Shtadlan of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth:
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 2002This chapter examines the Jewish intercessor (shtadlan) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, long the target of opponents’ bile and consistently defended by die-hard advocates. It addresses several fundamental questions regarding the shtadlan, his activities, and his role as a communal functionary.
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Elections vs. political competition: The case of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Review of Austrian Economics, 2013In models of political economy, institutionalization of free and open elections is presented as infusing competition into a previously monopolized regime. Due to elections, representative democracies are thought to reflect the will of the majority as opposed to the will of the elites.
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Cosmopolitanism as sub-culture in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
2019The lands that once comprised the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth pose a fascinating challenge to studies of identity. In the last two-and-a-half centuries in place of an erstwhile multinational Commonwealth, countries have disappeared and re-emerged, often in new guises, in the fault-lines between land-based empires. The relationship between discourse,
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Chapter Five. Identity formation in the polish–lithuanian Commonwealth
2008This chapter illustrates the contention that one can see in the relations between the Church and Jews in eighteenth-century Poland-Lithuania an aspect of the beginnings of what Karin Friedrich, in her book, called the transition from a constitutional and political concept of the nation to an ethnic and linguistic one.
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Cives Patriae: ‘German’ Burghers in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1999Modern theories of nation-building and nationalism have usually looked to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as the starting point for the formation of the nation, without taking into account expressions of pre-modern national identity and nationhood.
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