Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part I. Wartime Chaos and its Resolution: The Internally Displaced in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 1. The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews -- Chapter 2. The Chaos of War: Violence and Flight -- Chapter 3. The Refugees outside Ukraine -- Chapter 4. Facing the Refugee Experience -- Chapter 5. The Second Wave of Wars -- Chapter 6. Return and Reconstruction -- Chapter 7. Resolution -- Part II. Capture, Slavery, and Ransom: The Trafficked in the Mediterranean World -- Chapter 8. Introduction -- Chapter 9. The Captives: From Ukraine to Crimea -- Chapter 10. From Crimea to Istanbul -- Chapter 11. Ransoming Captives: The Religious, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Background -- Chapter 12. On the Istanbul Slave Market -- Chapter 13. David Carcassoni's Mission to Europe: The Sephardi Philanthropic Network -- Chapter 14. The Role of Italian Jewry -- Chapter 15. The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism -- Chapter 16. The Fate of the Ransomed -- Chapter 17. Transregional Contexts -- Part III. Westward: The Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire and Beyond -- Chapter 18. Introduction -- Chapter 19. Background: German Jews and Polish Jews before 1648 -- Chapter 20. The Trickle before the Flood: Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648-1654 -- Chapter 21. On the Road: The Struggle for Survival -- Chapter 22. Over the Border: Refugee Settlement in the Empire's Eastern Regions -- Chapter 23. Polish Jews Meet German Jews: The Refugees Elsewhere in the Empire -- Chapter 24. Amsterdam -- Chapter 25. Starting New Lives -- Chapter 26. The End of the Crisis -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Question of Numbers -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index.
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