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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (15650)	4/23/2003 10:55:35 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

ok, late in 19 and early 20th century czars government moved all jews away from cities to specially designated areas or so called "polosa rasseleniya". "Polosa rasseliya" was closed to fairly anti-semitic khazaks (the real descendants of Khazars). Regardless of anti-semitism jews managed to find a way to coexist with local population. The khazak's society was an unusual one, they lived as farmers and yet they were soldiers (light cavalry). At one point czars government issued an order to conduct attacks (pogroms) against jewish settlement. While pogrom is a real russian word due to those bloody times it became strongly associated with attacks against jews and especially organized attacks. In fact the word pretty much lost its original meaning in the modern russian and is equivalent to attacks against jews. The word was adopted in English because there was no other way to describe those attacks against jews Any more questions?