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===== Discussion ===== | ===== Discussion ===== | ||
This book is a proxy for Yurevichi, which was part of the Rechitsa district. | This book is a proxy for Yurevichi, which was part of the Rechitsa district. | ||
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+ | ====== Introduction ====== | ||
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+ | * // | ||
+ | * Privileges during Russian period: holding of markets at least twice a month | ||
+ | * Russian requirements for designation: | ||
+ | * Catherine II policy forced settlement of Jews from villages into towns and mestechkos; Jews became a significant part oft he population | ||
+ | * Geographic territory known as Belaia Rus' (White Russia) | ||
+ | * "Local people" | ||
+ | * Local Russians were Orthodox; Poles were Catholic | ||
+ | * Litvins were subjects of the duchy | ||
+ | * Jews of Rechitsa were known at Litvaks (Litvakes in Yiddish) | ||
+ | * Grand Principality of Lithuania had tolerant attitudes towards Jews | ||
+ | * with the exception of a few " | ||
+ | * economic relations in several sectors were symbiotic | ||
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+ | ====== Chapter 1 - Jews under Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ====== | ||
+ | * Medieval history, page 20. Rechitsa part of Duchy of Pinsk-Turov in 1150s | ||
+ | * Vitautas of grand duchy in Vilna tolerant of Jews; Judical rules protected life and property of all inhabitants, | ||
+ | * grants Jewish communities in Brest, Grodno, Toki privileges to develop the backward economy | ||
+ | * imposed death ponalty and confiscation of property as punishment for killing a jew | ||
+ | * collected find and awared the same amount to Jew who was a victim of a beating or injury | ||
+ | * Jews given guarantee of the inviolability of their property | ||
+ | * punishments imposed for disrupting Jewish religious services or vandalizing Jewish cemeteries | ||
+ | * Vitautas offered Jews the same righs as Christians in commerce and banking | ||
+ | * allowed Jews to engage in trade and farming | ||
+ | * Jews formed joint ventures to pool resources | ||
+ | * Alexander I Jagiellon expelled Jews in 1495, but brought them back 6 years later because of the duchy' | ||
+ | * Forms of taxation | ||
+ | * Principal income of Rechitsa governors came from the collection of wild honey. | ||
+ | * Reform of 1560 replaced 'taxes in kind' with monetary taxes, promoting trade and ability of peasants and craftsmen to sell their services | ||
+ | * Jewish population | ||
+ | * Existed sometime in 1625-1650 | ||
+ | * Jewish quarters appeared during the same time in Bykhov, Gomel, Mozyr, Chausy and Shklov | ||
+ | * Jews came from the populated west of duchy | ||
+ | * Christians made same migration to vacant eastern lands (ravaged by raids of Tartars, Cossacks and Muscovites) between 1550-1600 | ||
+ | * Jews developed the eastern territories, | ||
+ | * Jews mostly engaged in small-scale retailing, selling alcohol (tavern owners) and brokerage. | ||
+ | * 1662-1665: Muscovite and Cossacks overrun Belarus, capturing most of the area. Jews massacred or forced to convert. | ||
+ | * War weakens Grand Duchy of Lithuania. | ||
+ | * 1765 | ||
+ | * poll tax replaces Kahal; census of Jewsih taxpayers | ||
+ | * Jews lighting candles may explain source of town fires and population' | ||
+ | * 1750-1800: Jews lived in private mestchkos | ||
+ | * owners of mestechkos attracted Jews to develop local ecoomy | ||
+ | * Principal occupation of Jews: distilling alcohol, selling bodka, leasing various sectors of nobile' | ||
+ | * lightly populated and impoverished towns could not guarantee living for Jews in towns | ||
+ | * Jews paid taxes and gave " | ||
+ | * Taxation of Jewish community, as a whole. | ||
+ | * Not individual or family, but the whole community | ||
+ | * Fiscal system that existed until 1764 | ||
+ | * Litvaks - Lithuanian-Belorussian Jews | ||
+ | * By end of 1700s: speaking own dialect, dressed differently (did not ware the long-skirted garment) and cut hair differently (no sidelocks) | ||
+ | * Mentality (which set them apart from Ukranian and Polish Jewss): rationalisim in behaviur, thirst for learning, businesslike approach to work, purposefulness, | ||
+ | * Litvak families: man consults with wife on imprtant matters, particularly those relating to trade; role of women in Litvak families. | ||
+ | * thirst for knowledge: secular sciences | ||
+ | * One branch called Mitnagdim (those who oppose/ | ||
+ | * Habad: combined hasidism with rabbinical scholarship and rationalism | ||
+ | * Antagonism existed between Litvaks and Polish/ | ||
+ | * differences: | ||
+ | * Litvak traditions in Rechitsa exist even though Rechitsa close to Ukraine. | ||
+ | * Litvaks evolved into " | ||
+ | * * Last third of 1700s, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth suffered econoonmic decliene; implications for Jews | ||
+ | * Economy impoverished. Christian population creates laws to restricute compeition from Jews. Jews had to seek new ways to earn a living. | ||
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+ | ====== Chapter 2 - Under Russian Rule ====== | ||
+ | * Yurevichi name: Iurovichi | ||
+ | * Rechitsa " | ||
+ | * Addition of the northern part of the Kiev Voivodship. | ||
+ | * 1797: Uezd becomes part of Minsk Province. | ||
+ | * Catherine II preserves all rights and freedoms of " | ||
+ | * I Vishchinsky, | ||
+ | * CathII | ||
+ | * Polish language was viewed as language of elite (landowners); | ||
+ | * Attempts to convert new lands to Orthodoxy, but Catholicism, | ||
+ | * 1830-1831 Polish uprising | ||
+ | * Russification after 1831: Russian-language primary schools. By 1850s, all language in primary schools changed from Polish to Russian. | ||
+ | * 1830s start of closing of Catholic monasteries | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * attempts to neutralize influence of Polish culture and Jewish economic power. | ||
+ | * Taxes: Jews in Pale of Settlement were paying more than half of the town's taxes and fees. consisting of property taxes and dues for engaging in commerce and trades. Officials " | ||
+ | * Rechitsa town finances | ||
+ | * Drinking establishments provide largest source of income. | ||
+ | * Profits from town property 30% | ||
+ | * Taxes on residents 20% | ||
+ | * Expense: payment fo repair, construction, | ||
+ | * Police budget 21% | ||
+ | * schools 18% | ||
+ | * fire department 15% (all town buildings were wooden) | ||
+ | * Commerce | ||
+ | * Jews own hotels and inns | ||
+ | * Homesteads | ||
+ | * Orchards attached to houses (of nobility and functionairies) | ||
+ | * 90% had vegetable patches or gardens | ||
+ | * wooden homes (wooden, half-collapsed hovels) (pg 66). construction lumber cheap. | ||
+ | * avg of seven people lived in each house. | ||
+ | * Conscription in 1827 | ||
+ | * children taken away from parents and placed in army at age of 8. sent to military schools, " | ||
+ | * 25 yea service, beginning at age of maturity. | ||
+ | * 1867: Jews who finished their 25 years allowed to live anywhere in Russia. | ||
+ | * October 1907 strike. | ||
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+ | p.79 | ||
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+ | ====== Chapter 5 ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * P182: Kosher meat tax: initial use to support jewish community. |
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