Ruchliwość społeczno-zawodowa Żydów i formowanie się gospodarstw żydowskich w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim w latach 1808–1870

Abstract

The article is the second part of the analysis of Jewish marriage certificates from Piotrków Trybunalski between 1808 and 1870. The author discusses social strategies of matching spouses on the basis of the declared grooms’ and the parents’ professions in the certificates; he also takes into consideration where the newlyweds had lived before contracting marriage and afterwards in order to explore the dwelling habits and the support on part of the parents. The results of the investigations, indicating social and professional endogamous preferences and neolocality, are analysed in the demographic and cultural context of the time. In the end, the author sums up the demographic differences and similarities between the Jews and the Christians and asks a question on the role of religion, social, and economic in shaping the demographic behaviour of the Jews from Piotrków.

Keywords

• social and professional mobility
• a family
• households
• marriages
• the Jews
• Piotrków Trybunalski