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polnisch-jüdische Beziehungen und die russischen Behörden zwischen 1863 und 1914
Description:... Discusses relations between Poles and Jews in the part of Poland which was under Russian administration before World War I, and the attitudes of both towards the Russian authorities. States that although a major part of the Jewish population lived in these ten Polish provinces, this area was not dealt with much in studies on Jews in the Russian Empire. During the Polish revolt (1863-64) Jews and Poles united against the Russian occupier, but at the turn of the century Polish-Jewish relations were tense; Russian authorities did not sympathize with either group, and only attempted to keep the peace. Relates to the increasing tension in Polish-Jewish relations, and discusses the pogrom in Kishinev in 1903, the revolution in 1905 and its suppression, the boycott against the Jews in 1912, and the establishment of rural cooperatives which were meant to "liberate the population from Jewish exploitation". Claims that the failure of the Russian Empire to resolve ethnic conflicts accelerated the decline of the Empire.
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