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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry49, post: 7511566, member: 108876&quot;]For my expanding collection representing significant moments in Jewish history, I just acquired this Russian 5 kopeck of 1791. Catherine the Great, having annexed a large chunk of Poland (1770s), did not know what to do with her suddenly large Jewish population. In 1791 she established the &quot;Pale of Settlement,&quot; a large region that included such cities as Warsaw, Vilna, Kiev, and Odessa. Jews were permitted residence only within this area. With a few exceptions, this remained in effect until the Russian Revolution. My grandparents emigrated from this region (somewhere near Kiev) to Chicago in the 1890s.[ATTACH]1297732[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1297733[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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