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CHAPTER 9 The Polish people, living under Russian rule as long as the Jews, never accepted their fate. After being a powerful state for hundreds of years, nationalism remained a significant force. The religious differences increased the separation, as the Russian Orthodox hated the Polish Catholics, and vica-versa. Into this boiling pot stepped Alexander II.
ОглавлениеAlso, most of the Polish middle class, who felt the Jews were their economic rivals, were opposed to the Czar’s liberal attitude toward the Jews. So again, the Jews found themselves in the middle, as the Poles resented the reforms that Alexander II had put into place for the Jews.
A relaxation of pressure on the Jews from one source only served to promote pressure from a second source.
Through all this, the Jews had to keep a low profile. They continued their process of assimilation. Jacob Tepperovitch was ordained a rabbi. Shepsel Tepperovitch fasted and prayed a full day just as his father had done for him. Jacob married Rachel, a Lithuanian Jewish girl, and had a son named Moritz. They moved to Yelizavetgrad, Ukraine, where there was a Jewish population and where Jacob assumed his role as a rabbi for a congregation. The Jewish population of Yelizavetgrad was increasing because of the settlement of Jews from other areas of the Pale. By the time Jacob took up his duties, the population had reached eleven thousand.
