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An exploration of Russian Jews living outside the Pale of Settlement in the 19th century.
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America at out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn cenage I say 1 million Jewish children who were made to [Music] be th whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never Enough Jewish history sound bites bringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem Jewish historian and tour guide G with Jewish history sound bites and this episode when we uh continue exploring the story of the Jews in the Russian Empire the 19th Cent so a bit tired of the pale of settlement in our exploration of Jewish life and Zar thought that we would take a bit of a thought that we would take a bit of a diversion to Jews outside the pale or Beyond The Pale pale of settlement the in Hebrew so Jews who lived in Russia outside of the pill there's really three parts because there were three kinds of Jews who legally resided outside of the pale in zarus Russia number one was which will be the focus of this episode if we get it all in if not we'll have to get it into two it's also the most famous and most important historically famous and most important historically of the three uh categories the other two are rather minor stories but this first one is the is a category of Jews who used to live inside the pale of settlement Who quote earned and quote the right to reside outside of the pale by virtue of their wealth or career academic achievement military service profession Etc in other words this was the zarus government initiative to uh
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- 1:04America at out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn…
- 5:44right to move outside of the pale there actually is another third category an interesting one…
- 10:51English so if this topic interests you you might want to read his book or other…
- 15:31autonomy from zarus Russia the Polish aristocracy still had some power there but so so it's…
- 20:40really permitted to to engage in agriculture and it was it was not a great area…
- 25:161804 legislation stated the same with Jewish soldiers in the Zars military once the draft began…
- 30:24as my Jews um and the Russian government recognized him as the leader The Unofficial leader…
- 35:06and all that um and also it can teach us a lot about Russian Jewish Society…
- 40:14process and challenging on the other hand it was these types of communities that um because…
- 44:511892 the Jewish community of Moscow went from 30,000 Jews to less than 8,000 the rest…
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