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  • Seventeenth-century woodcut showing various members of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth society, including, top left, the Jew.
    Seventeenth-century woodcut showing various members of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth society, including, top left, the Jew.
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    Jewish Self-Government in Europe Was Not Just a Dream—It Was a Failure

    The Council of Four Lands was the central body of Jewish autonomy in Poland for nearly two centuries. What went wrong?

    byMoshe Rosman
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