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Tag: Russian Empire

0 Education History

Who Were the Students of the Great Lithuanian Yeshivas?

Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky in Tablet · 24 May

Before the First World War, students from Western countries rarely attended Lithuanian yeshivas due to political unrest in the region.

0 History Jewish Law

The Sabbatean Accusations Against Chassidus

Jewish History Uncensored · 5 Jan

Rabbi Arnie Wittenstein explores the second arrest of the Baal Tanya and the Sabbatean accusations against the Chassidic movement, illustrating the complex nature of Jewish leadership under Russian rule.

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The Accidental Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater

Alyssa Quint in Tablet · 21 May 2021

The modern Yiddish theater had an accidental rise in the late 19th century, starting in Odessa.

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An American Tale

Rokhl Kafrissen in Tablet · 26 Feb 2020

The article delves into the intertwining of myth and history in the Jewish-American immigration narrative, comparing the Exodus story to the mass Jewish migration from the Russian Empire to America between 1870 and 1920.

0 History Antisemitism

In the City of Killing

Mark Mazower in Jewish Review of Books · 21 Mar 2018

In late May 1903, Prince Sergey Urusov was appointed governor of Bessarabia following anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Russia, where 49 people were killed and many injured in a two-day rampage.

0 History Communities

120 Years of the Forverts: Pogrom Refugees Desperately Seeking Relatives in America

Forward · 30 Mar 2017

The article discusses the forgotten tragedy of the pogroms in the Russian Empire between 1917 and 1922, considered by some as a genocide, which resulted in the murder of an estimated 100,000 Jews and the displacement of two million.

0 History Antisemitism

Fateless: The Beilis Trial a Century Later

Steven J. Zipperstein in Jewish Review of Books · 9 Dec 2014

In the Fateless: The Beilis Trial a Century Later, the text discusses Mendel Beilis's notorious trial in 1913, accused of a blood libel murder in Tsarist Russia.