... century, around 1902, Russia fell victim to a famine and a cholera epidemic. Following this terrible year a wave of anti-Semitism swept across the Russian State. In 1903 the Jews were accused of performing ritual murders, causing a rumor created by the Russian people that their leader had ordered a general massacre. A false idea of Jews was created. Jews in every community throughout Russia were in ... destruction on Jewish communities. All of the Synagogue's were destroyed, Jewish businesses were looted, and approximately forty people were killed. At the end of all of the destruction t...

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... lands and businesses like the Rothschild banking family. In Eastern Europe, Jews were allowed to own no land and were forced to live in the western-most part of the Russian Empire known as the Pale. The Tsarist power used Jews as scapegoats much like the politicians in Western Europe. Instead of appealing to anti-Semitic sentiment to achieve democratic political ... inspired the empires subjects to participate in programs against neighboring Jewish communities to turn the hate fostered in poor living conditions away from the state. A forgery was made by the government called "The Protoc...

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