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Russian decree of 1791
Decree that allowed Jews to live in the lands taken from Poland and from the Ottomans, and barred them from trading in inner Russia.
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- 1791
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- 1791 Russian decree of 1791
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Pale of Settlement (Encyclopaedia Judaica), Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com.
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On the other hand, Jewish merchants were prohibited from trading in the provinces of inner Russia.
After the first partition of Poland in 1772, when masses of Jews living within the former country came under Russian rule, it was decided (1791)
These decrees were intended to serve the national and economic interests of the state by preventing competition of the Jewish with Russian merchants and encouraging settlement in the desolate steppes of southern Russia
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