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Russian Jewry under the Czars 1881-1914

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An analysis of Russian Jewry during the reactionary phase of Czarist rule.

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lead in America sh at the out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to La C I say 1 million Jewish children who were made [Music] to th whoever heard such beautiful 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 gab with Jewish history sound bites and this episode we're going to look at the zaris government um and its Jewish legislation government um and its Jewish legislation or probably more correctly said it's anti-jewish legislation after 1881 in other words the story of the Zars and the Jews from 1881 till 1914 in the last episode when we talked about Russian jury of the 19th century where we launched this this uh story this narrative we discussed from the partitions of Poland all the way up to 1881 so here we're just simply going to continue and discuss the story of the continue and discuss the story of the Jews in Russia under the Zars um specifically Zar Alexander III and the final Zar before the Russian Revolution Zar Nicholas II and the topics I would like to cover in this uh installment is the assassination of Alexander the Zar Alexander II um which which kind of launch lunched this time period that's why we picked 1881 um and um and what that leads to

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  1. 1:01lead in America sh at the out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who
  2. 5:13very often we choose a specific time and date and year to zoom in on because
  3. 9:18other big imperialist uh powers in Europe such as England the British Empire the rise of
  4. 14:00Alexander under the third number one this class system this way they view the new emerging
  5. 18:07Jews in Russia and this frustration was and and giving up essentially they had G given
  6. 22:46actually happy Zar Alexander III was happy that the Jews were getting what he saw as
  7. 26:51numerous Clauses limiting the licensing of new Jewish lawyers further restrictions on Jewish economic life the
  8. 30:57minorities and especially regarding the Jewish question I say all minorities because there are many minorities
  9. 35:30was mitigated following pv's assassination in 1904 but it was very limited and the Zar himself
  10. 39:39result of it as a protest against these potential reforms a string of bloody programs broke

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