PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1008, 23 September 1882, Page 2

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.

To all who are interested in the outrages inflicted on the Jews in various parts of Russia and Russian Poland, we strong commend the perusal of a pamphlet published by Messrs Spottiswoode and 00., New street square, London. It is one of the most dreadful recitals of outrage ever written, and one of the heaviest indictments ever levelled against a Christian Government. We see here that every horror for which Batuk became infamous has been and is being inflicted on hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children, in scores of Russian towns, the authorities in most cases refraining from interference or refusing to interfere. At Elizabethgrad, for instance', rumors of a rising against them had reached the Jewish inhabitants (who formed a third of its thirty thousand inhabitants) and they applied to the Governorfor special protection. And this is what followed : No notice was taken of the appeal ; and on Wednesday, the 27th of April, the dreaded outbreak took, place. A religious dispute iu a cabaret led to a scuffle, which grew into a general melee, till the mob obtained possession of th« dram shop and rifled it of its contents. Inflamed by the drink thus obtained, the rioters proceeded to the Jewish quarter and commenced a systematic destruction of the Jewish shops and warehouses. At' f first some attempt was made by the'JewsSsj to protect their property , but this only'* served to increase the violence of thsf r mob, which proceeded to attack the dwellings of the Jews and to wreck the, synagogues. Amid the horrors that ensued a Jew named Zolotwenski lost hia life, and no less than thirty Jewesses were outraged. At one place, two young girls, in dread of violation, threw themselves from the windows. Meanwhile the military had been called out, but only to ; act at first as spectators, and afterward# as active participators. One section of_ the mob formed of rioters and soldiersbroke into the dwelling of and old mannamed Pelikoff, and on his attempting to save his daughter from a fate worse than death they threw him down from the roof while twenty soldiers proceeded to outrage his unfortunate daughter. When seen by the correspondent who narrates this fact, Pelikoff was in a state of hopeless madness, and his daughter completely ruined in body and mind, o During the two days of the riots, 500 houses and 100 shops were destroyed, whole streets being razed to the ground. ' . . . We turn to the next page of the pamphlet, and there wo read a similar story. At Kiew the riot had been'Meflnitaly announced for the Sunday, and the Jews sent a deputation to the Governor, requesting him to call out his soldiers to prevent disturbance. He bluntly refused, saying be would not trouble his soldiers for a pack of Jews. During the riot, which broke out on the day ;fixed, the police and the soldiers again- acted the' same part that they had done at Elizahcthgrad. The first proceeclure of the mob was to storm the dram shops, and, staving the brandy casks, to wallow in the ' spirit. During the period of license that followed, four Jews were killed, twentyfive women and girls were violated, of whom five died in consequence, as was proved at the subsequent trials, At the house of Merdecai Wienaraki the mob, disappointed in the search for plunder, caught up his little child, three years old, and brutally threw it out of the window, The child foil dead at the feet of a company of Cossacks who were drawn up outside, yet no attempt was made (o arrest the murderers. At last, when several houses were set on fire, the military received orders to make arrests, which they proceeded to execute with much vigor,, making 1,500 prisoners, among whom were 150 Jews arrested for protecting their lives and properties. Nor are these the worst “butrages recorded in these pages ; and it is not as if these outrages in Russia were coin- H milted in a few towns and, villages. They have occurred in, V scores, ,of towns and villages week aftcr/ waekt: and month after mouth, wliil|j ijtlo ■ Government officials everywlievlpjptow -- - - ■ ■

ihewselves in full sympathy uiih the persecution. This appears even in the rescript of the Czar on the subject, where it is intimated that the Jews have only to thank themselves for Hie miseries they endure. But then the Czar is the Czar and no feeble Ottoman prince. We have mentioned an appendix to bo found in Messrs Spottiswoode’s pamphlet. This appendix is an alphabetical list of the outrages committed on the Jews in Russia j the dates, and the towns and villages in which these cruelties were per petrated, being duly set forth. Some of them—a few only—we borrow from this black chronicle. From the list below wo omit all cases of mere riot, and pillage or fire, and also we leave out numerous cases of wholesale expulsion Alexandrowsk, May 13—Riot by operatives ; 400,000 roubles lost ; announced previously ; appeal to Governor in vain ; telegram stopped four hours ; 300 out of 400 families left desolate j woman rendered lunatic. Balka, May 17.—Wife of innkeeper Allowicz outraged, then roasted in the house set fire to, in presence of daughter. Eerezowka, May 21.—Riot ; over one hundred Jewesses violated ; several forced into river ; nine died from exposure, three from violation ; two men killed. Boy stoned to'death on Sunday, May 22. Berislaw, May. — One Jew killed and house burnt down ; another roasted alive in own house ; outrages. Berispol, July 21-24.—Riot ; Jewish quarter burnt down; women helped to pillage, and brought out their children to witness the scene ; women held down Jewesses to he violated ; thirty houses destroyed, Elizabethgrad, April 27. Riots; riots were announced and planned ; origin in *• blood accusation merchandise thrown in street ; Cossacks present; one Jew killed, named Zolotweuski ; two yosng girls threw themselves from second story; 500 houses and 100 shops destioyod ;

military would not interfere ; thirty cases of vielation. Protecting Ins daughter ■ (who was afterwards outraged by twenty soldiers) an old man, Pelikoff, thrown from roof and rendered insane ; three persons killed in the districts ; soldiers shared in plunder. Gregoriewk, about May 20. Plot ; inn- .. keeper Eieffmann placed in one of his own barrels'and cast into Dniepei. lancbikraka, about May 20 Eiot ; all Jewish houses destroyed. Jagary, Aug 23.-Jewish quarters fired; 213 houses destjoyed. K'anzeropol, about May 20. —Riot ; Jew Enman, killed ; wife violated and killed. -Eiew, Sunday, May B.—Riot ; previously announced ; Governor refused to **interfere ‘for a pack of Jews ; four Jews killed ; twenty-five women violated ; five Jewesses died from outrage ; child (three years old) ot Mordecai Wienanki killed by being thrown out of a window ; 150 Jews arrested ; 2000 Jews left homeless ; 3,000,000 roubles lost. Kitzkis, May 16.—Riot ; Preskoff and wo little children burned in own house in presence of his wife ; twenty*five houses burned to the ground; Koretz, July 5 - Fire ; 5,000 souls homeless, thirty-nine burned ; 1,010 houses destroyed. Michaelowka, May.—Riot ; Jew killed '; Jewish innkeeper and family burned alive, Minsk, July 3,—Fire ; 6,000 homeless. Obuchow, about May 28 —Riot; 300 families homeless,

Jdessa, May 15. —Riot, announced for : 13 ; Governor appealed to in vain ; Jew Handelraann killed ; eleven Jewesses violated, one of whom died 5 loss of pro-: prrty 1,137,800 roubles. Orjechow, May 7.—Ringleaders'dressed as police officers, bearing supposed ukase ; agricultural colony; 500 cattle, 10,000 sheep driven off. ; Orel, Oct. 25. —Jews expelled to . the number of 5,000 ; 400 Jews thrust out into the snow on the night of October 26th. OuchoTV, May.— Riot ; 240 Jewish families homeless. ■ Podolsk, May 20.—Riot ; Jewish family murdered July,—One hundred Jewish families expelled. Romanowka, May. Riot; three Jewesses violated. Smila, May 17.—Riot; thirteen Jews killed, twenty wounded; 1600 rendered homeless. Warsaw, Dec. 25.—Riot, planned ; alarm raised in four churches simultaneously ; military not called out ; twelve Jews killed, 6000 homeless ; 2,000,000 roubles destroyed ; outrages ; lasted three days. Wasilkow, May 10.—Riot announced; the spoliation ukase referred to ; one Jew killed in the neighborhood ; wife and six children of innkeeper Rykelman murdered. Zuamenka, May 17 Jtnv, Resser, killed, his wife outraged, and both thrown into Dnieper. [The St. James’s Gazette, from which the above article is collated, contains 75 other cases.]