What is it about?
There were more than 460,000 Jews in Eastern Europe in 1500, and not only 10,000 to 50,000 as Jewish historians mention.
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Why is it important?
Because it shows that East European Jewry cannot have originated in Germany, because there weren't that many Jews in Germany to make such a number possible.
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This page is a summary of: Early Modern Polish Jewry The Rhineland Hypothesis Revisited, Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, January 2007, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.3200/hmts.40.1.39-50.
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