Jewish Privileges in the Polish Commonwealth: Charters of Rights Granted to Jewish Communities in Poland-Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Volume One: Critical edition of original Latin, Polish and German documents with English Introduct

The privileges granted to the Jewish communities in the old Polish Commonwealth played a vital role in the history of Polish Jewry and yield valuable historical information. The present collection reproduces the texts of 63 community privileges, of which 53 are from archives and manuscript collections in Poland.