[rollei_list] Re: Service in the Tsarist Armed Forces
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:37:08 -0400
At 09:31 AM 5/29/2008, Robert Marvin wrote:
>AFAIK many Russian Jews emigrated because of conscription (which I
>believe involved 20 years of service for enlisted ranks. I have no
>family stories to back this up though--my own family were German Jews
>who emigrated to the US in the aftermath of the events of 1848.
Well, no. Jews were not allowed to enlist in the
Tsarist forces unless they converted and were
certainly not subject to conscription. The same
situation was the case in Germany until the
unification, after which Jews were more welcome in the Navy than in the Army.
A lot of folks from central and eastern Europe
fled to the US after 1848. It was a desperate
time for a lot of guys, not just Jews.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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