sources open to him; namely, Bartolocci and Ugolino. After relating the early history of the Jews, Czacki describes their situation among the Arabs, Italians, Spaniards, French, Germans, and Hungarians. He tells of their entrance into Poland in the twelfth century; of their intellectual condition; of their government and laws; and of the persecutions to which they were subjected. He also wrote a short discourse on the Karaites (Dzieła Tadeusza Czackiego, iii. 271-285) which attempts to explain, on the basis of the sources accessible to the author and referred to above, "what the Karaites are, and wherein they chiefly differ from other Jews; when their separation occurred; and in what countries they dwell." Czacki's, who himself had been interested in Lithuanian language published a work on law in a two volumes About Lithuanian and Polish laws, their spirit, their origins and about things discussed in the first Lithuanian Statute of the year 1529 , explaining differences of the two nations within the former Commonwealth. See also History of philosophy in Poland List of Poles References External links Biography 1765 births 1813 deaths Tadeusz People from Volyn Oblast Polish male non-fiction writers Counts of Poland Polish numismatists Jewish Polish history People from Kremenets Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland) 18th-century Polish historians Polish educational theorists 19th-century Polish economists Polish Enlightenment 19th-century Polish historians