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5:51
The Pale of Settlement (5:51)
Date: August 5, 1772 (6 Av, 5532) Officially banned in 1479, no Jews lived in the Russian Empire until Tsarina Catherine II conquered a major portion of Polish territory, instantly inheriting the largest single concentration of Jews in the world
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Shimon Dubnow and the Russian Revolution (52:42)
How does a Russian Czar rid his empire of a "foreign, indigestible mass", also known as the Jews? Dr. Henry Abramson explores the historical background of the Haskala movement and Shimon Dubnow's role
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)