8
See vol. II, p. 423.
9
See vol. II, p. 424.
10
These barbarities were suspended only for a few days during that year, while the International Congress of Medicine was holding its sessions in Moscow. The police were ordered to stop these street raids upon the Jews for fear of compromising Russia in the eyes of Western Europe, since it was to be expected that the membership of the Congress would include medical celebrities with "Semitic" features.
11
The "Temporary Rules" were not given retroactive force, and those settled in the villages before the promulgation of the law of May 3, 1882, were accordingly permitted to stay there. [See vol. II, p. 311.]
12
See vol. II, p. 428
13
According to the statistics of 1898-1901, some 150,000 Jews in Russia engaged in agrarian pursuits. Of these, 51,539 were occupied with raising corn in the colonies, 64,563 engaged in special branches of agrarian economy, 19,930 held land as owners or lessees, and 12,901 were engaged in temporary farm labor.
14
See vol. II, p. 350.
15
A pro-gymnazium is made up of the six (originally four) lower grades of a gymnazium which embraces eight grades.
16
A contemptuous nickname for Russians customary among the Poles.
17
See vol. II, p. 332.
18
After the publication of his
19
The motto prefixed to Herzl's Zionistic novel
20
It was founded in 1889 and disbanded in 1897.
21
[See vol. II, p. 421
22
[Ahad Ha'am's report is embodied in the second volume of his collected essays (Berlin, 1903) under the title
23
[A number of articles under that title appeared originally in the Russian-Jewish monthly