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Julia Rusakova is a Doctoral fellow at Hebrew University, Department of German, Russian and
East European Studies. She is specializes in Economic History of the Ukrainian Jews in the
Early Modern Period.Her research project investigates the Jewish involvement in the landholdings
and leasing monopoly rights in Lutsk district of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during
1569-1647 years. Her work focuseson the comparative study ofall types, forms and proportions
of Jewish leaseholding,yield a deeper understanding of the principles, characteristics and
differences of Jewish leaseholding in rural and urban areas.The sources for the present project
are archival documents and narrative texts (records from municipal courts, protocols from the
Council of Four Lands, lustrations, censuses and other sources) from Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Poland.
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