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At the start of wars, Jews were asked to pay. Afterwards, they were kicked out the cities, property seized, tax-collection ended. Jews were an underclass like Gypsies, only meant to do dirtywork considered too impure for Christians.
Most Jews in America come from what was the PLC, which had the largest Jewish population of world before WW2. Unlike the rest of Europe, they lived like a protected and privileged class in the Commonwealth, under the Statut Kaliski and later royal confirmations. They had all kinds of legal privileges and controlled key sectors of the economy for the szlachta burocratic absentee landlords. Jews were arendatorzy, tax collectors, leaseholders of entire estates, salt mines, mills, and distilleries. They had near monopolies on money lending, liquor production, and tavern keeping. Basically, they had a license to fleece the peasants. The PLC peasant borrowed from the Jew to sow the crop, paid a rent share to the noble and another to the arendator, handed over grain for distilling, saw the surplus exported or taxed, and borrowed again to drink what was left in the Jew’s tavern. The whole countryside was up to its eyes in debt to the kahal’s agents. This was considered the highest point of Jewish history in Europe, the Paradisus Judaeorum. The wealth from this system funded countless yeshivot, and most important modern era Jewish religious movements, the Frankism and Hasidism, trace their roots to PLC in the 1600s.
At the start of wars, Jews were asked to pay. Afterwards, they were kicked out the cities, property seized, tax-collection ended. Jews were an underclass like Gypsies, only meant to do dirtywork considered too impure for Christians.
Most Jews in America come from what was the PLC, which had the largest Jewish population of world before WW2. Unlike the rest of Europe, they lived like a protected and privileged class in the Commonwealth, under the Statut Kaliski and later royal confirmations. They had all kinds of legal privileges and controlled key sectors of the economy for the szlachta burocratic absentee landlords. Jews were arendatorzy, tax collectors, leaseholders of entire estates, salt mines, mills, and distilleries. They had near monopolies on money lending, liquor production, and tavern keeping. Basically, they had a license to fleece the peasants. The PLC peasant borrowed from the Jew to sow the crop, paid a rent share to the noble and another to the arendator, handed over grain for distilling, saw the surplus exported or taxed, and borrowed again to drink what was left in the Jew’s tavern. The whole countryside was up to its eyes in debt to the kahal’s agents. This was considered the highest point of Jewish history in Europe, the Paradisus Judaeorum. The wealth from this system funded countless yeshivot, and most important modern era Jewish religious movements, the Frankism and Hasidism, trace their roots to PLC in the 1600s.
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