Persecution of Central European Jews in the Seventeenth Century

Caption

Persecution of Central European Jews in the Seventeenth Century

Summary

Map shows the Jewish diaspora in the 17th Century away from the Kingdom of Poland and the “”Council of Four Lands.”” It also demarcates the main area affected by the Chmielnicki’s massacres (1648-1651, and the main Jewish communities in Poland.

Source

The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas. By Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau. Maps by Catherine Petit. Penguin Books U.S.A. Inc., 1995. (p. 41)

Copyright

© 1995 Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau