Galil (administrative unit)

In Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, galils were administrative units of Jewish internal autonomy. [1] They were governed by Jewish regional councils (va'ad galil).[2]

While initially they matched the Polish structure of voivodships and other administrative divisions in other parts of the Commonwealth, over time the discrepancies between the state internal borders and those of the Jewish autonomy grew quite pronounced.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Scepter of Judah: The Jewish Autonomy in the Eighteenth-Century Crown Poland, pp. 6
  2. 1 2 "Councils", The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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