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COLGATE4

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7. If you look at Polish history afyer Casimir the great

Reply to izquierdista (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 04:28 PM

Jan 2012

you'll see that the 'tolerance to the Jews' decreed by him vanished pretty soon after. The history of the Jews in the Pale is one of essentially unlimited antipathy at best and pogroms at worst. The fact that they were ordered to live there because no one else wanted them didn't equal being loved by their ethnic neighbors.

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