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Michael Davitt. Within the Pale
Within the Pale
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PREFACE
WITHIN THE PALE
PART I. THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN JEW
CHAPTER I. FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO 1804
CHAPTER II. THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT (1804-1882)
CHAPTER III. FROM THE IGNATIEFF LAWS TO THE KISHINEFF MASSACRES
CHAPTER IV. A MURDER-MAKING LEGEND
CHAPTER V. RUSSIA’S ATTITUDE
CHAPTER VI. THE ZIONIST SOLUTION
PART II. THE KISHINEFF MASSACRES
CHAPTER VII. I. ORIGIN AND AGENCY
CHAPTER VIII. II. LETTERS FROM KISHINEFF[3]
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Letter V
Letter VI
Letter VII
CHAPTER IX. III. M. DE PLEHVE’S VERSION
CHAPTER X. IV. AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT
CHAPTER XI. V. DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER XII. NOTES AND COMMENTS
APPENDICES. Appendix I. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE JEWS (From the Daily Press)
Appendix II. A LETTER FROM LEO TOLSTOY
Appendix III
Appendix IV. FATHER JOHN OF KRONSTADT RECANTS
Appendix V
SIMON OF TRENT
POPE INNOCENT IV. (5th July, 1247)
POPE INNOCENT IV. (1247)
POPE INNOCENT IV. (25th September, 1253)
POPE GREGORY X. (7th October, 1272)
POPE MARTIN V. (20th February, 1422)
POPE NICHOLAS V. (1447)
POPE PAUL III. (12th May, 1550)
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Michael Davitt
The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecution in Russia
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One unexpected good result followed both to Russia and to large numbers of Jews by the failure of these contemplated agricultural settlements in the Governments of Cherson and Ekaterinoslav; where, at a later time, similar colonies grew and flourished. Odessa, to-day the richest and busiest maritime city of the Empire, owes its prosperity and progress largely to Jewish enterprise. Both the forced and voluntary migration from the north to the south of the Pale brought this resourceful race near where they were to find an outlet in a young and rising commercial centre for qualities essential to its rapid development which Russians do not themselves possess in any marked degree,—commercial genius. The city and its varied opportunities attracted both those who succeeded and those who had obtained no fair chance of thriving as agriculturists, and to-day over two hundred thousand of the Jewish population of Odessa embrace the wealthiest and most enterprising bankers, merchants, brokers, contractors, and business men of the Empire.
From the codification of the ukases and laws relating to Jews in 1835, down to the Ignatieff or “May Laws” of 1882, the treatment of the Jews, as regulated by these measures, is consistent with their experience as already briefly described. In some of these laws, Jews would appear from the text to be on a footing of theoretic equality with other citizens, while again special provisions are made to limit the application of these general rights to residence within the selected sphere of domicile, and to be further curtailed within this area, in the light and meaning of the law of 1804. There is a bewildering mass and maze of contradictory purpose in this code of special laws which no summary can hope intelligently to disentangle. It is obvious, however, that the vigour of direct persecution is meant to be modified to the extent of promoting the utilities of the State by Jewish abilities, while reserving all the powers necessary to dispense with the objectionable artisan, trader, or mechanic when his services or example are no longer needed in hamlet or village. This is one of the most objectionable features of indefensible laws. It wears a character of state meanness which can well compare in odious rivalry with the methods and morals of Jewish usury. The spirit of fair play is totally absent from regulations which give the state, by virtue of permissive coercion, the benefits of subjects’ services which are ultimately repaid in penalties and expulsion.
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