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02/11/2009

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Catherine the Great
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Empress of Russia who expanded her vast country’s borders south to the Black sea and west into Europe.
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Pale of Settlement
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Term given to Imperial Russia along it’s western border where Jews were allowed.
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Czar Nicholas I
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Catherine the Greats grandson, emperor of Russia and the third son of Paul and Maria.
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Czar Alexander II
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Emperor of Russian empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland and claimed the title of King of Poland .
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Haskalah/Maskilim
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Maskilim were followers of Haskalah which was the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century.
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Czar Alexander III
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Emperor of Russia from March 13 1881 until his death in 1894.
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Czar Nicholas II
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Last emperor of Russia claimant to the title king of Poland.
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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An anti-Semitic tract alleging a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination. Many people, both non-Jewish and Jewish have claimed it is fake and a hoax.
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Kishinev Pogrom
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The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia province of the Russian Empire April 6-7, 1903.
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