... anti-Jewish riots spreading through the southern provinces of Russia. As a result, Jewish houses were looted, burnt, and the inhabitants beaten to death. These attacks were called 'progroms', and as the police were doing little to control the riots, the people of Russia believed that Pobiedonostev, the Tsars minister, and the government were encouraging and organising these attacks. The Russian Orthodox Church too encouraged such attacks, calling the Jews Christ killers. In 1882 the 'May Laws' were introduced, these 'May Laws' expelled Jews from, all areas that the 'normal' public lived. The result of these laws made many Russian Jews flee to other western countries, such as France and Germany. This however just increased an anti-Semitic feeling throughout Western Europe. Not all was bad for the Jews however. In the 18th Century and the 'French Revolution' the Jews finally got equality, or 'emancipation'. Jews of Western Europe in 1790 and 1890 were ...

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