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What Actually Happened to the Jews of Ukraine in 1648?

By Shaul Stampfer.

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english
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3 MB (2642386 bytes)
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Topic
History
Library
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Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Исторические дисциплины;История Украины

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Source: Jewish History, Vol. 17, No. 2, Gezeirot Ta"h: Jews, Cossacks, Poles and Peasants in 1648 Ukraine (2003), pp. 207-227 he question of how many Jews died and how many survived in 1648 has produced much historical discussion. The problem is always the incompatibility of scholarly estimates and what is found in contemporary chronicles. Using demo graphic tools and applying them to all the regions of the Ukraine, it appears that no more, and possibly much fewer, than fifty percent of the 40,000 or so Jews in that region perished. The survivors mostly returned to their homes and rebuilt. Though speculative, the commensurability of the results argues their probable accuracy. Much

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