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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II

CHAPTER XVIII
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In that part of the country the systematic Jew-baiting of the Polish pans, or noble landowners, was still fresh in the minds, and the Jews, moreover, were pinning all their faith to the emancipation to be bestowed by St.
Petersburg.

The will o' the wisp of Russification had already begun to lure the Jewish professional class.

In many Lithuanian localities the Jews who failed to show their sympathy with the Polish revolutionaries ran the risk of being dealt with severely.

Here and there, as had been the case in 1831, the rebels were as good as their word, and hanged or shot the Jews suspected of pro-Russian sympathies.
The reserved attitude of the Lithuanian Jews throughout the mutiny proved their salvation after the suppression of the rebellion, when the ferocious Muravyov, the governor-general of Vilna, took up his bloody work of retribution.

As for the Kingdom of Poland, neither the revolution nor its suppression entailed any serious consequences for them.


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