19th century
Exclusion from municipal councils
11 juin 1892·Empire russe
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urban reform strips Jews of the right to municipal vote, councillors henceforth appointed by the governor in a capped proportion
The urban reform stripped Jews of the Russian Empire of the right to vote in municipal elections. In the cities of the Pale of Settlement, where they often made up half or more of the population, Jewish councillors were no longer elected but appointed by the governor, and their number was capped at a small proportion of the assembly. A city could thus be majority Jewish and administered by a council in which Jews had only appointed representatives. The measure completed the work begun two years earlier with the provincial assemblies: on the eve of the new century, there remained no elected assembly in which a Jew of the Empire could sit as of right.
- Period :
- 19th century
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Empire russe
Simon Doubnov, *Histoire des Juifs de Russie et de Pologne* ; Hans Rogger, *Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia* ; *Encyclopaedia Judaica*, article « Russia ».