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STATUTE OF KALISZ 8 81

NUMBER 19. NUMBER 20.
An attack on a Jew at night. The miniature on the right side, in the French
Artur Szyk paints robbers attacking a Jewish text, features a Jewish merchant at work. In
man at night. The ducal privilege written in front of him, there is a table with vegetables,
the Statute of Kalisz ordered Christian fish; in his hand, he is holding bread. Behind
neighbors to provide help for a Jew in need. him, there is a painting with a Chinese
If they failed to do this, they would be magician. It is another reference to the
forced to pay thirty shillings. Therefore, the Statute of Kalisz.
official medieval law was a few centuries
ahead of its time. Article 36. Jews may buy all things freely
and may touch bread and other foods as do
Christians.
From the collection of the Józef Piłsudski
Library (WiMBP) in Łódź.
From the collection of Marek Szukalak