Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1757, volumes of the Talmud were burned in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia. The instigators were followers of Jacob Frank, a Jewish merchant who claimed to be the messiah and successor
Read More +Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1827, Czar Nicholas I decreed that all Jewish boys be forcibly conscripted into the Russian Army at age 12. Called “cantonists,” these boys were kidnapped from their parents’
Read More +In 1952, the last year of Stalin’s life, 15 Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted of capital offenses, including treason, espionage, and bourgeois nationalism.
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