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Place in Russia

What happened to the Jews in Moscow

36 events, 1500 AD to 2006 AD

15th century

  1. c. 1500–1650 AD Jews excluded from Moscow for religious enmity · Moscow, Russia

16th century

  1. 1504 AD Violence against Jews in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  2. 1549 AD Ivan the Terrible refuses Jewish commercial visits to Moscow · Moscow, Russia

17th century

  1. 1610 AD Agreement barring Jews from entering Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  2. 1659 AD Moscow Jews exiled to Siberia · Moscow, Russia
  3. 1676 AD Czar Feodor forbids Jews to remain in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  4. 1678 AD Jewish merchants excluded from visiting Moscow · Moscow, Russia

18th century

  1. c. 1772 AD Jewish petition to join Moscow merchant guild rejected · Moscow, Russia
  2. c. 1772–1860 AD Confinement of Jewish visitors to the "Jewish Inn" ghetto · Moscow, Russia
  3. 1790–1791 AD Jews barred from the Moscow merchant guild · Moscow, Russia

19th century

  1. 1828 AD Restrictions on Jewish merchants' stay and trade in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  2. c. 1855–1881 AD Abolition of the Moscow ghetto and residence privileges · Moscow, Russia
  3. 1891 AD Expulsion of Jews from Moscow, Russia · Moscow, Russia
  4. 1891 AD Grand Duke Sergei expels Jewish families from Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  5. 1891 AD Moscow synagogue closed and community dissolved · Moscow, Russia
  6. 1891 AD Residence rights of Cantonist descendants abrogated in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  7. 1896 AD Quotas and bans in medical and engineering schools · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  8. 1896 AD Restrictions on Jewish students and railroad employment · Moscow, Russia
  9. 1899 AD New restrictions on first-guild Jewish merchants of Moscow · Moscow, Russia

20th century

  1. 1903 AD Expulsions in Kiev, the Caucasus, and Moscow · Kyiv, Ukraine and elsewhere
  2. c. 1904 AD Jewish pharmacy and obstetrics students barred from living in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  3. 1906 AD Moscow synagogue permitted to reopen · Moscow, Russia
  4. 1922 AD Gindin affair · Moscow, Russia
  5. 1948–1949 AD Liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee · Moscow, Russia
  6. 1952 AD Arrest and execution of Anti-Fascist Committee leaders · Moscow, Russia
  7. 1952 AD Night of the Murdered Poets · Moscow, Russia
  8. 1955 AD Imprisonment of elderly Jews for Hebrew and Israeli literature · Moscow, Russia
  9. 1960–1963 AD Restriction of burials at the Jewish cemetery in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  10. 1961 AD Segregation of foreign visitors in the Great Synagogue · Moscow, Russia
  11. 1961 AD Yeshivah students denied residence registration · Moscow, Russia
  12. 1962–1965 AD Matzah baking discontinued and then restricted · Moscow, Russia
  13. 1972 AD Closure of the Cherkizov synagogue · Moscow, Russia
  14. 1978 AD Sentencing of Anatoly Sharansky · Moscow, Russia
  15. 1992 AD Molotov cocktail attack on Hasidic synagogue in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  16. 1993 AD Vandalism of the Moscow Choral Synagogue · Moscow, Russia

21st century

  1. 2006 AD Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue stabbings · Moscow, Russia

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