Beyond the pogrom narrative : the Sołtan–Michelewicz Affair and the confessional transformation of Zhyrovichy
Since the late eighteenth century, historiography has traditionally framed the 1605 murder of Itzhak Michelewicz as a quintessential manifestation of anti-Semitism within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This interpretation, rooted in the hagiographic work of Ignacy Stebelski, has long dominated scholarly discourse....