Explain why Abraham Yacobovitsc was living at 116, Redbank in 1902

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Kamran Anwar                  History coursework- Abraham Yacobovitsc

Explain why Abraham Yacobovitsc was living at 116, Redbank in 1902

 

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            The first reason as to why Abraham Yacobovitsc may have wanted to leave Russia was that there a Pogrom in Russia at the time. The word pogrom in Russian means “devastation”. There were many pogrom attacks in Russia by mobs against the Jews. A large number of anti-Jewish people swept across southern Russia in 1881, after the Jews were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Alexander II. In the disasters that occurred in 1881, there pogroms that were carried out in 166 Russian towns, thousands of Jewish homes were destroyed, with many families reduced to extreme poverty, many women were sexually assaulted with a large number of men, woman, and children brutally killed. This could have been a reason for Abraham Yacobovitsc to leave Russia for England.

        Secondly, there was a lack of education, opportunities and freedom for movement within Russia. There was a lack of freedom of movement as the Jews got moved into an area called the Pale of Settlement. The Russian government did not want the Jews living in Russia, so when Russia took over from Poland the Jews were made to live there. It was easy to attack The Jews in the Pales because they lived in communities called Shetls. Only 10% of Jews were allowed to be admitted into universities in their own area, and only 5% were allowed in universities within St. Petersburg and Moscow. Soon the same restriction was involved with secondary schools. Jews were also forbidden to trade on a Sunday. Abraham Yacobovitsc may have wanted to leave Russia for England, as he may have heard of the improved education, opportunities and more freedom for movement.

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            There were many restrictions in the law that were aimed towards the Jews, first of which was that the Jews were not allowed to be engaged in agriculture, except by leasing, this meant the Jews were no allowed to grow crops without the prescription of a lease. There was only a limited amount of Jews that were allowed to join a university or secondary school. No Jew was allowed to participate in trade on a Sunday.

             There was no protection that was offered from the Tsar and authorities towards the Jews. The pogroms meant that anti-Semitic people had the ...

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