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Auction 1 · Lot 245

Expozycya Praw Miasta Warszawy Wzgledem Zydow

Estimate
$400–$600
Hammer price
$600

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(POLAND).

Place

N.p

Publication

c.1768

summary

“Exposition of Rights.” A response to a Jewish petition requesting permission to reside in Warsaw. The document traces the legal history of occupational and residency rights for Jews in various provinces in Poland and concludes that their presence is deleterious to the Polish economy, therefore wise to ban them from the entire Province of Warsaw. See B.D. Weinryb, The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History...1100-1800 (1972) pp.134-141
4pp., unbound, folio
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