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The Russification of the Jews was to be promoted by translating the Bible and the prayer-book into the Russian language, "which must become the national tongue of the Jews." However, the headlong rush for assimilation was soon halted by the sinister spectacle of the Odessa pogrom of 1871.
The process of Russification may be likewise observed in the manner of building the houses and in the methods of farming, which show plainly that the Finnish races did not obtain rudimentary civilisation from the Slavs. Whence, then, was it derived? Was it obtained from some other race, or is it indigenous? These are questions which I have no means of answering.
All that the Jews needed was to make themselves deserving of his kindness, and worthy of the citizenship they saw in store for them. In Russian, in Hebrew, and in Yiddish, in prose and in poetry, the one theme uppermost in the mind of all was enlightenment, or rather Russification. From all quarters the reveille was sounded. Shake off the dust, open wide thine eyes!
Such fanatics are occasionally to be met with in the eastern provinces, but they are few in number, and have little influence on the masses. From my own experience I can testify that during the whole course of my wanderings I have nowhere received more kindness and hospitality than among the uneducated Mussulman Bashkirs. Even here, however, Islam opposes a strong barrier to Russification.
They were deeply interested in whatever marked a step forward in their country's civilization. The last stanza runs as follows: Grant us, who, like you, worship the God above, Also on earth to enjoy equality with you! To-day, while your hearts are open to love, Let us seal our happiness with your love, too! This desire for naturalization brought with it an attempt at "Russification."
Baron de Hirsch's munificence was flatly refused. In the school which Mr. Writers are wont to speak of this as a reactionary period. The description applies to the Russians; among the Jews it was a period of reawakening. They were disillusioned. They saw that Russification without emancipation, as their unsophisticated fathers had told Lilienthal, meant extermination.
As they were going out of the drawing room to conclude the argument, Koznishev said, smiling: "So, then, for the Russification of our foreign populations there is but one method to bring up as many children as one can. My brother and I are terribly in fault, I see.
The new periodical was bolder in unfurling the banner of emancipation, but it also went much further than its predecessors in its championship of Russification and assimilation. The motto of the Dyen was "complete fusion of the interests of the Jewish population with those of the other citizens."
It was merely the State language, and even the Government officials fell back on their mother tongue whenever they were at liberty to do so. It was this that made it very difficult for the Jews to be Russified. But even if Russification had been a much easier process, Russian civilization was hardly worth the having.
To the former all that Russification implied was the removal of the obnoxious excrescences of Judaism but not the demolition of the national organism itself.
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