Published : 2022-12-31

From Polin to the City of Antenor. Jewish Medics’ Educational Expeditions to Padua in the Ages of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Among the students from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Padua, of whom we know from archival materials, we can find several Jews. Their presence among the students attending medical lectures at the University of Artists is treated in historiography as a manifestation of the tolerance of the Gymnasium Patavinum authorities and as proof of the existence of religious freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian state, unheard of in other parts of Europe at that time. In this article, relying on archival sources and previous establishments of the researchers, I present a short analysis of the Jewish students’ situation in Padua’s Atheneum. Furthermore, following the careers of selected medics with Jewish ancestry in the First Republic of Poland, I try to find answers to the questions concerning the inspirations and desires that underlied their decisions to study in the City of Antenor.

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Padua, polish students, medics, university, Jews



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Marchel, S. (2022). From Polin to the City of Antenor. Jewish Medics’ Educational Expeditions to Padua in the Ages of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 12, 27–40. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.1718

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