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Russian Jews: Lives of Discrimination
Title: Russian Jews: Lives of Discrimination
Category: History
Details: Words: 2852 | Pages: 12.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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
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to be Jewish. Because of this the Russian Jewish population dropped. Once having been six million strong, it had now fallen to under a half million (Kniesmeyer 67).
After hundreds of years of discrimination, Jews in Russia were finally totally free. Jews were accepted into Russian society and given good jobs. Since 1991 Jews have become even more important to Russian society. They have become lawyers, doctors, and politicians. Russian Jews could finally say they had survived.
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