Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

A groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history

A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and trafficked across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Rescue the Surviving Souls is the first book to examine this horrific moment of displacement and flight, and to assess its social, economi...