The vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the Jewish community flourished and developed many of modern Judaism’s most distinctive theological and cultural traditions while also facing periods of antisemitic discriminatory policies and persecutions.
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