This is a strong book especially when you consider the bibliographic resources brought to bear...Rybak has done a lot by creating a synthetic portrait of the Jewish world from the Baltic to the Black Sea and from the Dnieper to the Oder.
Jan Rybak studied history at the University of Salzburg and received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2019. He held visiting and research fellowships at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, New York University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught as an external lecturer at the University of Salzburg and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York.