Sallie's Forum

I've read part of Alexander Solzhenitzen's book "200 Years Together" which is an account of the Russian/Jewish history in that region from the 18th century up to the Bolshevik revolution. Of note is the fact that this book is a rough translation from Russian, and hasn't been released in cleaned-up form yet in English, like you'd purchase at a book store. One has to consider that there have been forces at work to prevent this book from being mainstream.

The main theme I've seen so far in this book is that the "Jews" in that region were not interested in assimilating into the land but had their own agenda and did not want to cooperate with others. It's known that these groups were asked to leave or were kicked out of many areas over the centuries. But somehow the locals could not get cooperation with the Jewish groups to work in a harmonious way.

Here is a link to the book on Archive.org. There are several file formats to download. According to one review, the book has been available in Russian and French and was a bestseller. It just hasn't been done in English til this edition became available.

https://archive.org/details/200YearsTogether