Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,4 (1995) 493-518
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The law was one of the few careers open to Jewish intellectuals in Tsarist Russia, and they formed a relatively large proportion of the bar association. Russian lawyers at first welcomed them, but beginning in the 1880s competition and growing antisemitism gave rise to demands to restrict the licensing of Jews and even of converts. Jews were said to be revolutionaries and subversives, and not rooted in the Russian tradition underlying Russian law. States that the government bureaucracy was not antisemitic but it wished to foster Russian solidarity through nationalistic ideology. Accordingly, from 1889 onwards the Ministry of Justice controlled the entrance of Jews to the law profession. In 1907, the government began consciously to exploit antisemitism to bolster its rule. Even liberals in the bureaucracy and in the Duma vied to prove their conformity. In 1912 the Ministry of Justice stopped admitting Jews to the profession.
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