If anything, they were more
rigorously executed, and the mob was encouraged to multiply its outrages
upon the defenceless Jews. The closing years of the nineteenth century
wiped out the promises of its opening years. Blood accusations followed
by riots became of frequent occurrence. Irkutsk (1896), Shpola, and Kiev
(1897), Kantakuzov (Kherson), Vladimir, and Nikolayev (1899) gave the
Jews a foretaste of what they had to expect when the Black Hundreds,
encouraged by the Government and incited by Kruzhevan and Pronin, would
be let loose to enact the scenes that took place in Kishinev and Homel
before the Russo-Japanese war, and in hundreds of towns after it. The
difficulties in the way of securing an education were increased. Russia
did not believe in an "irreducible minimum" where the rights of her Jews
were concerned. Under Nicholas II the number of Jewish women admitted to
medical schools was put at three per cent of the total number of
students; the newly-established School for Engineers in Moscow was
closed to Jewish young men altogether; and the students of both sexes in
the schools were constantly harassed by the police because of the harsh
laws concerning the rights of residence.
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