Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,2 (2016) 301-316
Keywords:
Leibov, Boroch (Baruch)
;
Voznitsyn, Alexander
;
Jews Persecutions 18th century
;
History
;
Jewish merchants
;
Antisemitism History 18th century
;
Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Abstract:
An unprecedented event took place in St. Petersburg in 1738. A Jewish merchant, Boroch Leibov, and a Russian captain-lieutenant in the navy, Alexander Voznitsyn, were burned at the stake. Voznitsyn had met Leibov in Moscow, and, impressed with the latter's teachings, had decided to convert to Judaism. Based on the Sobornoye Ulozheniye decree, both of them were tried and sentenced to public burning: Voznitsyn for withdrawal from the Orthodox faith, and Leibov for persuading him to abandon his faith. Their trial was widely reported throughout the Russian Empire, and caused changes in the regime's policies toward Jews: both the Empress Anna Ioannovna, and after 1740 her successor Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, signed a number of decrees ordering the Jews to leave the borders of the Russian Empire.
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