Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why Were There No Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire?
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

Several academic works have influenced research discourse more because of their impressive titles rather than their content, which is important in its own right. 1 One of them is John D. Klier's study, "Why were Russian Jews not Kaisertreu?"Klier asked why Jews were not loyal subjects of the Russian Empire, like they were in the neighboring German and Austro-Hungarian empires.To answer this question, Klier described how the tsarist regime equated Jews with its enemies, the Poles, and imposed ant