14/25 In this way some 20,000 Jews who had lived in Moscow fifteen, twenty-five, and even forty years were forcibly removed to the Jewish Pale of Settlement. 2) burghers are subject to corporal punishment, whereas the higher estates, among them the merchants, enjoy immunity in this direction.] 3. EFFECT OF PROTESTS All these horrors, which remind one of the expulsion from Spain in 1492, were passed over in complete silence by the Russian public press. |