j'enleverai

Updated: May 4, 2025

He experienced a revulsion of feeling toward reforms in his vast empire, and, as always, the Jews were the first victims of an ill-boding change. The kindly monarch who, at Paris, had said to a Russo-Jewish deputation, J'enleverai le joug de vos épaules, began to make their yoke heavier than he had found it.

Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin - The Haskalah Movement in Russia