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Since ancient times, numerous Jews lived in Eastern Europe, from where they engaged in a thriving slave trade. Our German word "Sklave" originated from "Slawe"; the Slavic peoples provided a rich source for forced labor. Later, Poland became the refuge for Jews expelled from Germany; they became indispensable to the magnates in the exploitation of the peasants.


From the dukes and later the kings, they received numerous privileges, including distilleries and the sale of spirits. Despite all appeals, even from high clergy and the Pope, they repeatedly found protection among the kings and magnates. Indeed, in the 17th century, the long-stored popular rage also broke out here, especially against the Jewish tax and tribute suckers, leading to horrific persecutions of Jews ("pogroms") throughout the East. But then the Polish nobility took the Jews back in, and the world owes the inexhaustible Jewish cradle in the East to them. At the end of the Middle Ages and long thereafter, the German language was widely spread throughout the East. When the Jews expelled from Germany immigrated to Poland, Judeo-German, the "Yiddish" language, developed.