Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The trauma wrought by scissors

Here's an illustration of Czar Nicholai I's soldiers carrying out one of the ukases to cut the beards and peyos (side curls) of Jews, as part of his policy of forcible Russification.

From Ost und West (1916).

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