The conflict between the Jews and the…
June 1882 CE
The conflict between the Jews and the Orthodox Church in Russia releases the most open and virulent manifestation of religious anti-Jewish sentiments.
To the church, the Jews are the enemy seeking to undermine Russian Orthodoxy and the tsar, the very foundations of Russian tradition.
The church and the tsarist authorities go so far as to condone, and even encourage, the violent pogroms that are perpetrated against the Jews in 1881-82.
The laws of May 1882 ban Jews from any new settlement even in the traditionally authorized provinces.
A numerus clausus ("closed number" in Latin) is imposed on Jews in Russian schools and universities.
Most of the Jews in Moscow are expelled, as are ...