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Contributor:
Bernard Picart
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1723
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Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
Places:
Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty
(Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1722
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
Date:
1864–1867