Table of Contents
Preface xi
Note on Place-Names and Transliteration xvii
Maps xix
Introduction 1
Part I Wartime Chaos and its Resolution: The Internally Displaced in Eastern Europe
Chapter 1 The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews 23
Chapter 2 The Chaos of War: Violence and Flight 31
Chapter 3 The Refugees outside Ukraine 40
Chapter 4 Facing the Refugee Experience 51
Chapter 5 The Second Wave of Wars 62
Chapter 6 Return and Reconstruction 76
Chapter 7 Resolution 88
Part II Capture, Slavery, and Ransom: The Trafficked in the Mediterranean World
Chapter 8 Introduction 95
Chapter 9 The Captives: From Ukraine to Crimea 98
Chapter 10 From Crimea to Istanbul 107
Chapter 11 Ransoming Captives: The Religious, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Background 116
Chapter 12 On the Istanbul Slave Market 124
Chapter 13 David Carcassoni's Mission to Europe: The Sephardi Philanthropic Network 132
Chapter 14 The Role of Italian Jewry 142
Chapter 15 The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism 160
Chapter 16 The Fate of the Ransomed 180
Chapter 17 Transregional Contexts 191
Part III Westward: The Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire and Beyond
Chapter 18 Introduction 199
Chapter 19 Background: German Jews and Polish Jews before 1648 206
Chapter 20 The Trickle before the Flood: Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648-1654 215
Chapter 21 On the Road: The Struggle for Survival 223
Chapter 22 Over the Border: Refugee Settlement in the Empire's Eastern Regions 231
Chapter 23 Polish Jews Meet German Jews: The Refugees Elsewhere in the Empire 243
Chapter 24 Amsterdam 259
Chapter 25 Starting New Lives 272
Chapter 26 The End of the Crisis 286
Conclusion 293
Appendix: The Question of Numbers 307
Notes 309
Bibliography of Primary Sources 357
Index 365
