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A Shtadlan was an intercessor figure who represented interests of the local Jewish
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
 community (such as those of a town's ghetto
Ghetto

A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
) in Medieval Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, and worked as a "lobbyist" negotiating for the safety of Jews with the authorities holding power.

The Shtadlan emerged in the 17th century and with the rise of Absolutism as an intermediator between the Jewish community and the outside government. He was appointed by the government, and could even be named as a royal official.






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A Shtadlan was an intercessor figure who represented interests of the local Jewish
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
 community (such as those of a town's ghetto
Ghetto

A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
) in Medieval Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, and worked as a "lobbyist" negotiating for the safety of Jews with the authorities holding power.

The Shtadlan emerged in the 17th century and with the rise of Absolutism as an intermediator between the Jewish community and the outside government. He was appointed by the government, and could even be named as a royal official. The Shtadlan became a tool of the government even though he officially represented the Jewish community.

Typically, a Jewish community (kehila) governed its own internal affairs. The interactions with the outside society, such as tax
Tax

To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon an individual or Legal person by a state or the functional equivalent of a state.Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entity....
 collection and enforcement of various restrictions and compulsions imposed on the community, were arranged by an internal governing board (kehilla
Kehilla

A kehilla or kehillah is a Jewish community. In pre-World War II Europe, all towns or cities with a Jewish population had one communal organisation, or occasionally more....
).

Similar internal autonomy was revived with the establishment of Judenräte
Judenrat

Judenr?te were administrative bodies that the Germany required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union...
 ("Jewish councils") in the ghettos of Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
-occupied European countries.

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    Court Jew

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