A collection of first-hand accounts drawn from the extensive records of the National Archives. It explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; it is a social history of black soldiers; it explains how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war.
#4308599 in Books Teter Magda 2009-04-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .71 x 5.98l; 1.01 #File Name: 0521109914312 pagesJews and Heretics in Catholic Poland A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Insecure 17th 18th Century Polish Catholic Church Viewed Jews As ThreatBy TomDuring the Reformation large numbers of the Polish nobility left Catholicism and converted to Protestantism. Much of this was motivated by the nobles' interest in increasing their independence from the monarchy and Catholic Church. However; following the 17th century invasions of Poland by Protestant Sweden (the Potop szwedzki) and through the efforts of the church's Counter-Reformation; the nobility gradually returned to Catholicism. The Polish Catholic Church was not content with this victory; but viewed the nobility's continuing symbiotic relationship with the Jewish population as a threat. Because of this insecurity the 18th century Polish Church was still using medieval anti-Jewish rhetoric that had been long abandoned further west. These circumstances shaped the Polish Church's strongly anti-Semitic attitude that survives to this day.Teter has scoured church archives to provide the reader with numerous examples of the church's militant position regarding Jews; Protestants; and Anti-Trinitarians in post-Reformation Poland. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the shaping of Polish-Jewish relations.
