Jewish Settlements

  • Leah's Russia

    Russia convulsed and its revolutions and violence reverberated throughout the world before and during WWI

    PyotrStolypinLOC07327Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister 1911
    637px-Vice-AdmiralKolchakAlexander Kolchak
    AntonDenikin1917estAnton Denikin
    AABogdanovAlexandar Bogdanov
    PhotoofMikhailRodziankoMikhail Rodzianko, 4th Duma
    636px-Nicholai Ruzsky
    678px-AlexandraFyodorovnaLOC01137uTzarina Alexandra Feodorovna
    634px-PaulAlexandrovichGrandDukeofRussiaGrand Duke Paul Alexandrovich
    591px-GrandDukeKirillVladimirovichRomanovGrand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich
    StalinFullImageJoseph Stalin

    Between the wars, Stalin rose to power and famine and death raged as he purged the Soviet Union of old-time Bolsheviks.

     

  • The Pale of Settlement

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    The territories of the Russian Empire in which Jews were permitted permanent settlement. Although large in size (approximately 472,590 square miles or 1,224,008 sq km), and containing areas of dynamic economic growth, the Pale (known in Russian as cherta postoiannogo zhitel’stva evreev; the English word pale was borrowed from the term applied to the area of English settlement in Northern Ireland, where the lands of the “wild Irish” were considered “beyond the pale”) was considered the greatest legal restriction imposed on the Jews of the empire.

  • The Yishuv: The Settlements

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    The Yishuv(Hebrew: ישוב‎, literally "settlement") or Ha-Yishuv (the Yishuv, Hebrew: הישוב‎) or Ha-Yishuv Ha-Ivri (the Hebrew Yishuv, Hebrew: הישוב העברי‎) is the term referring to the body of Jewish residents in the land of Israel (corresponding to Ottoman Syria until 1917, OETA South 1917–1920 and later Mandatory Palestine 1920–1948) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living across the Land of Israel, then comprising the southern part of Ottoman Syria, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were some 630,000 Jews there.[1] The term is used in Hebrew even nowadays to denote the Pre-State Jewish residents in the Land of Israel.[2]

Morris Levy

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Moshe "Morris" Levy

Bodyguard and General to Chinese Nationalist Army

Two-Gun Levy was a real person named Morris Cohen and given the nickname "2-Gun" because he always carried two guns. He protected both Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek from 1911 until his death in the 1950s.

Pinchas Levy

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Pinchas Levy

Poet and Warrior

Pinchas Levy participated in a love battle that became the talk of Ottoman Palestine. He fought with the Jewish Legion in WWI and then settled down at one of the first Kibbutzim.

Dovid "Davey Boy" Levy

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Dovid "Davey Boy" Levy

Head of the Freedman Gang and Mobster

David Levy joined one of the lower East side New York City gangs and eventually became head of one of the most notorious mobs in the US.

Leah Levy

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Leah Levy

Bolshevik revolutionary

Leah Levy was a member of the wealthy and influential Polyakov family who became disillusioned and radicalized. She joined the Bolsheviks and through much suffering remained a member of the Communist party until her death in the late 1950s.