Video: From Empire to Putin’s Russia: How the Abolition of the Pale of Settlement Helps Understand ‘Great Russian’ Anti-Semitism

From Empire to Putin’s Russia: How the Abolition of the Pale of Settlement Helps Understand ‘Great Russian’ Anti-Semitism. On April 2, 1917, the Pale of Settlement was abolished—a system that for more than 120 years restricted millions of Jews in rights, movement, and the very possibility of living outside the ‘permitted zone’….