Illiteracy was comparatively unknown among them. particularly among their men. as It was the religious duty of every Jew to be able to read his prayers. and the man who knew how to read prayers learned in the course of time to read revolutionary literature. The Government realized the revolutionary character of. the activity of the Jews and it began to - organize massacres in order to crush them. The procurator of the synod is charged with having predicted as the result of this policy toward the Jews that a third of them would be converted. a third would emigrate. ivhile the rest would die of hunger. The Government made a desperate effort to drown the revolution in Jewish blood. . The Government proclaimed as Its policy orthodoxy. autocracy. nationality (Slavlsm).
Identified stereotypes
Jews are portrayed as revolutionary and targeted for violence.