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| ISBN: | 0511137699
9780511137693
1280431881
9781280431883
0511135521
9780511135521
9780511499043
0511499043
9786610431885
6610431884
0521856736
9780521856737
9780521109918
0521109914
9780511312007
0511312008
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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| Summary: | Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland takes issue with historians' common contention that the Catholic Church triumphed in Counter-Reformation Poland. In fact, the Church's own sources show that the story is far more complex. From the rise of the Reformation and the rapid dissemination of these new ideas through printing, the Catholic Church was overcome with a strong sense of insecurity. The 'infidel Jews, enemies of Christianity' became symbols of the Church's weakness and, simultaneously, instruments of its defense against all of its other adversaries. This process helped form a Polish identity that led, in the case of Jews, to racial anti-Semitism and to the exclusion of Jews from the category of Poles. This book portrays Jews not only as victims of Church persecution but as active participants in Polish society who as allies of the nobles, placed in positions of power, had more influence than has been recognized.
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| Other form: | Print version: Teter, Magda. Jews and heretics in Catholic Poland. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521856736
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