Some splendidly equipped
institutions of learning were allowed to remain almost empty rather than
admit Jewish students.[2]
This was the worst punishment of all, the most relentless vengeance
wreaked on a helpless victim. "Of all the laws which swept down upon
them from St. Petersburg and Moscow," says Leroy-Beaulieu with
characteristic insight into the soul of Israel, "those which they [the
Jews] find hardest to bear are the regulations that block their entrance
to the Russian universities." The bloodless weighed heavier than the
bloody pogroms. Consumed with a desire for education, wealthy Russian
Jews made an attempt to establish higher schools of their own, without
even drawing upon the surplus money of the kosher-meat fund, which had
originally been created for such purposes. Baron de Hirsch, too, offered
two million dollars for the higher and technical education of the Jews.
But every attempt proved fruitless. Baron de Hirsch's munificence was
flatly refused. In the school which Mr. Weinstein opened at Vinitza,
Podolia, no more than eight Jews were allowed to attend among eighty
Christians, and in the one at Gorlovka, founded by another Jew
(Polyakov), only five per cent were admitted.
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