A city in Greater Poland, which belonged to the province of South Prussia from 1793 to 1807 and to the Prussian province of Posen from 1815 to 1919. At the end of the 18th century, this area contained the largest closed community of settlements of Jews in Prussia. The transformation of previously Polish Jews into German citizens, which took place under Prussian rule, raised questions and conflicts concerned with acculturation, assimil…