Introduction World history witnessed numerous cases of oppression due to racial, religious and gender factors. Women remained limited in their rights up to the nineteenth century when they, united by common dissatisfaction with them being treated differently, stood up against this gender differentiation. At this, some women had to experience two kinds of oppression at one and the same time. Jewish women living in Russia were restricted in their rights firstly for being Jewish and only then by being women. Throughout the decades they experienced injustice and bad treatment having no strength to rebel. There is no doubt that they could handle the violation of their rights as women but the ways other people treated them for being Jewish were sometimes cruel, unfair and were a sign of complete disrespect for their culture and traditions. Vivid distinctions can be observed between the life of a Russian Jewish woman of the nineteenth century and a Jewish woman living in America today but to feel the significance of these distinctions it is necessary to find out more about what Jewish women experienced in the past as compared with what they have today. Discussion What should be mentioned above all is that irrespective of living in Russia the rights of a Jewish woman were still not equal with those of a man. Patriarchate could be observed in all the Jewish families and most of the woman’s rights were neglected which was considered normal due to certain moral values and beliefs of Jewish people. It was very often the case that a Russian Jewish woman took care of the wealthiness of the family. As a rule, Jewish women kept a shop or a tavern whereas their husbands were busy with studying Torah. The thing was that Russian Jewish women ”were not expected to study Torah” and their “education was less traditional than their male peers’” (Sarah Abrevaya Stein, 2005). As the creation of harmonic and stable family was beyond the powers of a woman alone the task of a husband was to love, respect and take care of his wife keeping in mind that he was the head and authority of the family. This does not mean that men could apply violence in the family or treat their wives badly, it was just that in accordance with their religious beliefs women were deprived of certain rights and freedoms. This traditional aspect was preserved as a part of Jewish culture even when they lived in another country. Second to mention is that legal status of Russian Jewish women differed greatly from that of the women of other religions. Russian legislation contained a number of restrictions which concerned only Jewish women. Among these laws the most difficult for women were the restrictions in the choice of the place of residence and profession as well as the percentage necessary for entering different educational establishments. Moreover, social status of a Jewish woman, according to the Russian laws, depended on the status of her husband. The wife of a Jewish man who was allowed to live out of the Jewish Pale, had a right to live together with her husband but if they divorced or in case of the husband’s death she lost this right. This was due to the fact that a Jewish woman had no right to possess real estate out