„Kuris iš jų geresnis: žydas, totorius ar čigonas?“ Petro čiževskio žvilgsnis į Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštijos totorių kasdienybę

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The aim of the article is to discuss a subjective view on the day-to-day life of Tatars in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (hereinafter GDL) by referring to the only anti-Tatar work written in the GDL “Alfurkan Tatarski prawdziwy na czterdziestu cześći rozdzielony” (“The Real Tatars’ Alfurkan Divided into Forty Parts”) by Piotr Czyżewski (second edition, Wilno, 1617). The comparative method used in discussion by the author is very important, because when Czyżewski assesses Tatars he compares them with Jews and Rom. This research is bipartite: 1) determination or motives that lead the author to choose to compare Tatars’ everyday life with that of Jews and Rom; 2) an attempt to restore the roots of some of the author’s anti-Tatar ideas. The conclusion of the research is that since the beginning of the 17th century stereotypes or common images of the non-Christians, which were equally associative having in mind Tatars and Jews, gradually formed in the society of the GDL, and there was an attempt to imitate well known anti-Jewish approaches for creating anti-Tatar imitations by interception.