Tsarist antisemites feared Jews waging a demographic war through birth control

Evidence

Antisemites imagined Russians locked in a demographic war with Jewish enemies who, by peddling pornography, contraception and abortion, sought to unleash sexual desire while reducing the Russian birthrate. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 544

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is essentially the exact structure of the modern ‘great replacement’ conspiracy but focused on fertility suppression rather than immigration — worth tracing how the birthrate-control framing morphed between eras.
• SEED: An essay comparing the tsarist-era ‘demographic war by contraception’ fantasy to contemporary replacement-theory panic would show the trope’s real antiquity and its shifting target mechanism.