The Cantonists - The Czar's Jewish Soldiers

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1. 0:02All right, good morning after another class, just a class. Um, but still good to be…
2. 4:09many years later um when um the during the hazmonian civil war in the middle second…
3. 8:50thinking um of the horrors of the Russian Empire and of course the um classic example…
4. 13:29taxes, the Jews had to pay a special tax in exchange for being released from military…
5. 18:07serve. Who would want to go to such a service? Now, here was the challenge. They…
6. 23:13um some even got the conscription officials to declare them dead. Um but even then, if…
7. 27:54into hiding. Um people describe how in the middle of their shabas prayers someone said kappers…
8. 32:27extensively briber bribing local officials which was a way to get around most problems in Russia.…
9. 37:06throughout um similar to their numbers in the general population. Um unfortunately, Jews would continue to…
10. 41:47Nazis, the um Jewish councils that the Nazis created and others. Um Jews often abandon their…

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