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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 9, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday december 9, 2007 editor Buzz Currie 697-7577 b1 perspective by Henry Trachtenberg t his year is the 125th anniversary of a significant event in Winnipeg a social and eth no cultural history ? the 1882 arrival in the Manitoba Capi Tal of about 350 russian jewish refugees who were fleeing physical attack and Polit ical persecution. Their arrival marked the real beginning of the Winnipeg jewish Community. ? o or lives and wealth Are every minute in danger ?. Such persecutions and cruel ties never happened before in this civilized generation. Men and women have been slaughtered the female sex have been ill treated on the Public streets ? c Hildren have been cast into Wells and Rivers and drowned living infants have been torn in pieces and thrown upon the streets. Many women sick in bed from confinement have been so abused that they died ? t Here is no other Way to remedy these evils than by escaping so wrote a jewish surgeon Barber in Russia to a friends brother in Law in Winnipeg in april 1882. The letter written in yiddish and translated into English in Winnipeg was published in the Manitoba free press and graphically described for Winnipeg Gers the untenable position of the five million jews of Russia. The circumstances described ? the widespread pogroms throughout southwestern Russia in the Wake of the assassination of Czar Alexander ii by a revolutionary a bomb on March 1, 1881 ? combined with the introduction and rigorous enforcement of the temporary rules or May Laws of 1882, which imposed severe social political and economic restrictions on jews served As the major impetus for a massive exodus of russian jewry to Western Europe and North America. It continued unabated until 1914. Continued please see refugees b2 not part of the first wave these immigrants reached Manitoba in 1910. The Man at left in overalls is identified As Nathan Arber the woman in the foreground As mrs. Feldman. Jewish heritage Centre of Western Canada ;