1. The Origins And Development Of Hasidic Jewry And Its Alterations Of Jewish Faith In Poland
... the Talmudically educated Jewish merchants were pitted up against one another in a socioeconomic battle. Not only were Jewish laborers angry at Jewish merchants for perceiving their supreme Talmudic educations as symbols of social aristocracy, but also were angry at merchants for perceiving their illiteracy as whole a sign of their inferiority. Jewish laborers "had been long waiting for an opportunity to strike ... to draw hundreds of thousands of new followers each year [Sachar, 77]. Also in 1772, the first Partition of Poland occurred, when the rulers of Austria, Russia, and Prussia a...
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