From an article by Lawrence Goodman published in the Brandeis.edu web site: In 1827, in response to a czarist decree, kidnappers began abducting Jewish men from their homes for conscription into the Russian army. Many were boys, some as young as 12, whisked away to military boarding homes, trained as soldiers and then forced to …
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Saving the World’s Synagogues from Destruction
From an article by Lawrence Goodman published in the Brandeis.edu web site: In 1827, in response to a czarist decree, kidnappers began abducting Jewish men from their homes for conscription into the Russian army. Many were boys, some as young as 12, whisked away to military boarding homes, trained as soldiers and then forced to …
Saving the World’s Synagogues from Destruction
From an article by Lawrence Goodman published in the Brandeis.edu web site: In 1827, in response to a czarist decree, kidnappers began abducting Jewish men from their homes for conscription into the Russian army. Many were boys, some as young as 12, whisked away to military boarding homes, trained as soldiers and then forced to …