Category: History - European
The time when Jews first settled in Russia is a subject of mere historical conjecture. Some accounts assert that colonies of the race were founded in the country bordering on the Black Sea several centuries before the Christian era. All the probabilities favour this view. Both...
To arrive at definite conclusions as to the immediate and the contributory causes of the sanguinary outrages perpetrated upon the Jews of Kishineff on the 19th and 20th of April...
15. CHAPTER XIIBoth the _Bessarabetz_ and the _Znamya_ have studiously refrained from alluding to the indignation excited in Western Europe and in the United States over the consequences of th...
14. CHAPTER XIWe, the numerous Jewish inhabitants of the town of Kishineff, having suffered from an inhuman and sanguinary outburst which resulted in unprecedented plundering on the part of a...
4. CHAPTER IIGradually the provinces along the western frontier, stretching south from Riga to the territories bordering on the Black Sea, became marked off as a Pale of Settlement. Within t...
5. CHAPTER IIIPrince Demidoff San Donato was a member of the Pahlen Commission, and in his admirable work “_La Question Juive en Russie_” (published at Bruxelles, 1884,) he gives, in his own...
7. CHAPTER VThe absolute truth about the plan and purpose of the massacres at Kishineff in April may be difficult to determine amidst the conflicting accounts of Russian officials, and of J...
13. Letter IV arrived in Kishineff. They were strangers and evil-looking.They all took part in the riots, and the mutilations of a child and of two of the four Jews murdered at 13 Asia Street, Bender Rogatka district, were the work of these imported...
6. CHAPTER IVM. De Plehve and the Tsar can accomplish one good and blessed work, if so minded, without altering a single anti-Semitic Russian law. The Emperor can destroy, in Russia, the atr...
3. CHAPTER IThe time when Jews first settled in Russia is a subject of mere historical conjecture. Some accounts assert that colonies of the race were founded in the country bordering on th...
8. CHAPTER VINo truer general statement of the case of the Russian Jew, or nobler appeal to enlightened humanity in his behalf, has been made in our time than by Cardinal Manning, in a lette...
9. CHAPTER VIIKishineff is the capital of Bessarabia, the seat of its government, and the chief centre of its trading industry. It has a present population of 130,000, of a mixed ethnological...
11. CHAPTER IXThe official explanation from the Russian Government was made by M. de Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, to Mr. Arnold White. The following is the full text of the docum...
12. CHAPTER XIt will be observed that M. de Plehve ignores altogether the part played by the _Bessarabetz_ in the period which led up to the massacres. He makes mention of the fact that he s...
2. PART II1. PART I