They were designated as _aktzizniks_, from _aktziz_, the Russian word for "excise."] The question which confronted the Government next was this: to what extent have the hopes for a fusion of the Jews with the original population been justified by the events?
Here, too, the reply was unsatisfactory.

The naive expectation that a few gratuities offered to the Jews in the shape of privileges would fill them with the eager desire to "fuse" with the Russians did not come true.

Strong as was the trend towards Russification in the new Jewish _intelligenzia_ of the sixties, the broad masses of Jewry knew nothing of such a tendency.

The authorities became suspicious: what if these crafty Hebrews should fool us again and refuse to pay for the donated rights by fusing with the Christians?
Russian officialdom received new food for reflection which was to last it for years, nay, for decades.
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THE INFORMER JACOB BRAFMAN Several occurrences were instrumental in determining the Government to embark upon a new policy, that of investigating assiduously the inner life of the Jews.