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Temporary (May) Laws
Russian regulations of May 1882 that barred Jews from settling outside towns in the Pale of Settlement.
- Dates
- 3 May 1882
- Also known as
- May Laws, Russian May Laws, 1882
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part of
- Pale of Settlement 3 May 1882 Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 3 May 1882 Temporary (May) Laws
- 3 May 1882 Temporary (May) Laws part of Pale of Settlement
Proof 1 source
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May Laws (Encyclopaedia Judaica), Encyclopaedia Judaica, via Encyclopedia.com.
Scholarship & press
As a result, the "temporary regulations" of May 3 (15), 1882 stated: (1) Jews are forbidden to settle outside the towns and townlets;
The "temporary laws" satisfied the demands of the Russian rural merchant class that sought to be rid of its Jewish rivals in the villages of the Ukraine and Belorussia.
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