Abstract
This chapter explores Jewish security in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In assessing the likelihood that the Polish kings might have driven the Jews out of Poland–Lithuania in the seventeenth century, Israel Halpern concluded that, despite factors favouring expulsion, the Jews had been safe. Their wealth, economic role, and political influence secured their position. This theme has been taken up over the last two generations by historians living in North America, Israel, and Europe. Writers intimately familiar with the strength and achievements of Jewish communities in pluralist societies have tended to emphasise the fundamental security and the real economic and political power that the Jews possessed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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