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Cantonists (Russian: кантонисты; more properly: военные кантонисты, "military
cantonists") were
underage sons of
conscripts in the
Russian Empire. From...
- The
official Russian policy was to
encourage the
conversion of
Jewish cantonists to the
state religion of
Orthodox Christianity and
Jewish boys were coerced...
- de Custine,
Charles ****ens, and many
Western governments. (See also
Cantonists.)
Nicholas disliked serfdom and to**** with the idea of
abolishing it in...
-
first Jews to
arrive were nineteenth-century
Russian soldiers (known as
cantonists) who sta**** in
Finland after their military service ended. The two synagogues...
- Leaders".
Tablet Mag.
Retrieved April 20, 2023.
Adina Ofek (October 1993). "
Cantonists:
Jewish Children as
Soldiers in Tsar Nicholas's Army".
Modern Judaism...
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forced ****imilation of Jews, from 1827
conscripted Jewish children as
Cantonists in
military institutions in the east
aiming to
compel them to convert...
- (Russian: купцы первой гильдии),
persons who had
received higher education,
cantonists (after
serving their full term in the army), and some
other categories...
- This
allowed the so-called
Jewish 'Nicholas soldiers' (often
former cantonists) and
their descendants,
First Guild merchants, artisans, and Jews with...
-
converted into
cantonists (Kantonisten). The term "recruitment"
thereafter applied to the
hiring of
foreign mercenaries only;
cantonists were said to be...
- were sent in
early 1833 to the
Dmitrievsky semi-battalion of
military cantonists: "The
Karachay people live in the tops of the
Kuban River, the po****tion...
