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19th Century Russia
Jews in Czarist Russia
Jews have greatly exaggerated their travails in Russia, as elsewhere.
OF ALL THE glaring hiatuses in the chronicle of man, none is more obscured than the true history of Russian Jewry. In the 19th century, we have all been told, Russia withheld nearly all the basic human rights from its Jews by forcing…
The Vexing ‘Jewish Question’: A Nineteenth-Century Scholar’s View
Introduction by Mark Weber
ALTHOUGH TODAY it is considered tactless if not hateful to speak openly of a “Jewish question,” the often thorny matter of relations between Jews and non-Jews in society is a real issue that has bedeviled countless governments and scholars for centuries. In…