Adam Teller, Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates, Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press, 2016. 360 p. ISBN 978-080-4798-44-0
Abstract:in the 18th century. It is divided into six chapters, which can be separated into two different parts. The first three chapters deal mainly with demographic trends among Jews, the policy of noblelandowners towards Jewish settlements, the general urban landscape, and the economic institutions on the estates. Its main conclusions are that the landowners, members of the Radziwiłł family, were keen to bring Jews to their estates and to urban locations; the growth of the Jewish population corresponded well with the… Show more
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