COUNCIL OF FOUR LANDS

COUNCIL OF FOUR LANDS
COUNCIL OF FOUR LANDS, central institution of Jewish self-government in Poland functioning from approximately the middle of the 16th century until 1764, and representing the Jewish communities associated in their respective provinces ("Lands"), principally four in number. See council of the lands .

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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