The Jewish community

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Michałowska-Mycielska Anna
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Michałowska-Mycielska Anna
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This book features the mechanisms underlying the life of Jewish communities and the policies pursued by their authorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th centuries on the example of two communities: Poznań and Swarzędz. It covers such issues as election of community officials and their responsibilities, the rabbi`s office, community courts, craftsmen`s guilds and brotherhoods, control exercised by the community authorities over residents, the community`s fiscal policy, the relations between the principal community (in that case Poznań) and its branch (here Swarzędz), and the relations between Jewish communities and non-Jewish authorities.

Anna Michałowska-Mycielska is a historian working at the Institute of History, Warsaw University. The subject of her studies is the history and culture of Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th centuries.
She published:

Między demokracją a oligarchią. Władze gmin sydowskich w Poznaniu i Swarzędzu (od połowy XVII do końca XVIII wieku) [Between Democracy and Oligarchy: Jewish Communal Authorities in Poznań and Swarzędz from the Middle of the Seventeenth to the End of the Eighteenth Century], Warszawa 2000
Gminy sydowskie w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Wybor tekstow źrodłowych [Jewish communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Selection of Source Texts], Warszawa 2003
Pinkas kahatu swarzędzkiego (1734-1830) [Pinkas of the Swarzedz Kahal (1734-1830)] Warszawa 2005
Sejmy i sejmiki koronne wobec Żydow. Wybor tekstow źrodłowych [Diets and Dietines in Poland and the Jews. Selection of Source Texts], Warszawa 2006
Sejm Żydow litewskich (1623-1764) [The Council of Lithuanian Jews (1623-1764)], Warszawa 2014