Legal Segregation of the Population

in the campaign “Establishment of the "Pale of Settlement" (1791)”

The introduction of territorial discrimination: by the decree of 1791, the Jewish population's right to burgher and merchant status was confined to specific viceroyalties – Ekaterinoslav and Taurida[1] – the legal foundation of the future Pale of Settlement, which confined the area of residence and economic activity to the colonized governorates.

ID: C0036.T0032
Start: January 1791
End: December 1791
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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