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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
Date:
1864–1867
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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Moses Belmonte, The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records or The Annals) appropriated the term of an old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Contributor:
Valerii Rybarskii
Places:
Marijampole, Russian Empire
(Marijampole, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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Anonymous
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905