Russian Jews: Lives of Discrimination
For more than five hundred years Russian Jews were forced to live with terrible crimes such as, robbery, rape, and murder. The Russian government only thought of them as "the Jewish Problem." Mass murders of Jews were planned and carried out by the Russians. Jews were not allowed to enter Russia because the Czars considered themselves Protectors of the Christian Faith (Kniesmeyer 29). The Jewish population in Russia has, until very recently, been victim to religious persecution and discrimination ranging from the boycotts of its stores to mass murders. Jews have not been accepted in Russia since the Middle Ages.. They were considered a problem for Russian society. The government said Jews made it impossible to form a nation of a single people based on common religion and language. It also did not like Jews living in villages where they were an important part of the economy. This was a problem because free people were not supposed to live on noble land (Kniesmeyer 29). Jews did not want to enter into mainstream society where they would be forced to desert Judaism. In 1804 Alexander I was the first Czar to force expulsion of the Jews from villages by creating the "Statute Concerning the Organization of the Jews" (Kniesm
By the end of the Civil War there had been more than two thousand pogroms, which all together left one hundred thousand Jews dead and more than a half million homeless (Kniesmeyer 42). The Germans had just taken control of more than four million Jews living in the Soviet Union. Synagogues were shut down and religious books and objects were taken away. In two days more than thirty-three thousand Jews were murdered. People were closely wedged together and lying on top of each other so that only their heads were visible. The Hebrew poet, Hayyim Nachman Bialik, who witnessed the massacre at Kishinev, wrote, "Behold on tree, on stone, on fence, on mural clay,/ The spattered blood and dried brains of the dead. In 1919 the Ukrainians, when forced to retreat, killed thousands of Jews. Jews were allowed to enter school, but only a few did because classes were not taught in Yiddish. In 1844 schools for Jews were developed to bring them closer to the Christians. The people who opposed the plan developed a campaign to make laws against Jews more harsh (Kniesmeyer 37). Thousands of Zionists were sent to live in Siberia. He had a tommy gun on his knees and was smoking a cigarette. The worst violence started after the Czar was forced to create a constitution in 1905. They were allowed to enter public schools, but they were forced to leave their villages.
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