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+ | ===== Notes ===== | ||
+ | ==== History ==== | ||
+ | * Jews enter Belarus in late 14th centure with permission of Vitovt, Prince of the Great Kingdom of Lithuania. | ||
+ | * Immigrated from Western Europe, mostly Germany and Poland | ||
+ | * 1917 Russian revolution. Civil war and pogroms take place; result in Jews supporting Bolshevik Party | ||
+ | * Jews attempt to emigrate. Civil war stopped emigration. | ||
+ | * New Economic Policy | ||
+ | * abolition of private trade; restrictions on small artisans. | ||
+ | * Former Jewish merchants, dealers, trademen, shopkeepers, | ||
+ | * These Jews lived with the help of remitances from abroad | ||
+ | * Soviets try to solve Jewish poverty by allowing them to be farmers | ||
+ | * Insufficient land in Belarus to add Jewish farmers. | ||
+ | * Therefore, it was necessary to " | ||
+ | * Early Jewish collective farms created naturally between 1918-1920. | ||
+ | * In 1921, new Jewish collective farms stopped | ||
+ | * Between 1924-1925, 80 Jewish collective farms created in BSSR | ||
+ | * Aid for Jewish farming came from | ||
+ | * American-Jewish United Agricultural Corporation (Agrojoint) | ||
+ | * Society for Spreading Farming and Handicraft amoung Jews | ||
+ | * Jewish Colonial Society | ||
+ | * Resettlement of one Jewish family cost between 1800-2200 rubles | ||
+ | * Jews were over 20% of the Belarus Communist Party, but never more than 10% of the population. | ||
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+ | ==== Commerce ==== | ||
+ | * Jews living in cities and towns interacted with the villare and rural economies | ||
+ | * trade in the forest industries | ||
+ | * leather industries | ||
+ | * Peddling village produce (flax, hemp and bristles) in the city | ||
+ | * agriculture | ||
+ | * After Revolution, high unemployment | ||
+ | * Blacksmiths were better off | ||
+ | * Tanners, dressmakers, |
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