Jewish presence in Russia grew only through eighteenth-century territorial expansion

Evidence

The Jewish communities in these provinces came into being under the aegis of the Polish-Lithuanian State, which had accorded them tolerance and a measure of autonomy. Through the successive partitions of Poland the great majority of them had passed under the rule of the Czars of Russia, who thus acquired by conquest the Jewish subjects whom they had refused to accept by any other means. These new subjects suffered greatly by the change. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 939 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Russia acquired its Jewish subjects by Polish partition conquest, not by invitation — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 939

Broader Connections

• Russia acquired its Jewish subjects by Polish partition conquest, not by invitation #corroborates (0.92) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 939