Tag: Czarist Establishment

"Beyond Research: Ansky's Chronicle of Tenderness" by Alyssa Quint discusses S. Ansky's book "The Enemy at His Pleasure," which is a memoir and war chronicle documenting Ansky's experiences delivering relief to Jews in the Pale of Settlement during World War I. Ansky witnessed and recorded the mistreatment and violence against Jews by the Czarist army, Cossack brigades, and fueled by antisemitic propaganda.