HIST 219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Russian Culture, Ottoman Empire, 6 Years
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Jewish leadership system questioned: focus on political transformations, hasidic court & yeshivas during a time of change in polish lithuanian. Many of these groups (poles, ukrainians, bella-russians) each have different set of needs and conflicts. Jews are the largest non-slavic and non-christian group. Rulers of the largest jewish population in the world (700,000) Late 18th late 19th century: population grows to 5,000,000. How might we characterize the russians policy toward jews in the late. 1790s members of the christian merchant class, complain to catherine the great that jewish merchants have been infiltrating moscow and creating economic competition: bans jews from entering into the russian interior (st. Petersburg and moscow: delineates the provinces in which jews are allowed to live, the pale of settlement: borders finalized in. Considered the greatest restriction jews face, but unlike ghettos: region that they are confined to are not exclusively lived in by. Jews are only 12: residents are considered privileged.
