Hebrew Literary Sources to the Czech History of the First Half of the 17th Century. End of the Thirty Years’ War in the Testimonies of Contemporaries
Hebrew Literary Sources to the Czech History of the First Half of the 17th Century. End of the Thirty Years’ War in the Testimonies of Contemporaries

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the Hebrew chronicle “Milhama be-shalom“ describing the Swedish siege of Prague at the very end of the Thirty Years’ War, in July—October 1648. First the main sources concerning the event are mentioned, then attention is paid to the author of the chronicle, Yehuda Leb ben Yoshua of Prague, and the ways of his treating the subject are discussed. The end of the paper evaluates the chronicle as a source of historical information. There is also an Appendix of extracts from the chronicle translated into English.

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