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This major change is what Yuri Slezkine and Andrew Sloin both term the Jewish revolution.32 Scott Ury and Inna Shtakser also argue similar points. 33 The major social change they all identify was characterized by a symbolic move away from tradition through increased education and non- traditional values, as well as a physical move from the Pale of Settlement to major cities and revolutionary hubs like Moscow and St. Petersburg, or later Petrograd and then Leningrad. ³4 In succinct terms, the Jewish revolution can be summarized as “the story of the Jewish social rise, Jewish patricide, and Jewish conversion to non-Jewishness (of whatever kind)."³5 According to both Ury and Shtakser, this revolution began amidst the political and social changes of the 1905 Revolution, in which Jewish working-class individuals experienced tremendous change to their identity as Jews. 36 More specifically, Jewish individuals, influenced by modern secularism, radical politics, increased education, and abandoned traditions, largely identified themselves with a new movement, rather than the Jewish roots they grew up with. 37 Education was a fundamental aspect of this transformation, as well as a physical migration from outlying territories to large cities and industrial hubs. Societally, the growing change in individuals' identities increased the larger Jewish community's position and, eventually, Jews 32 Sloin, The Jewish revolution in Belorussia, 2; Slezkine, The Jewish Century, 223. 33 Scott Ury, Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), 3-6; Inna Shtakser, The Making of Jewish revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement: Community and Identity during the Russian Revolution and its Immediate Aftermath, 1905-07, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 6-9. 34 Slezkine, The Jewish Century, 216 35 Ibid, 254. 36 Shtakser, The Making of Jewish revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement, 2; Ury, Barricades and Banners, 3-5. 37 Shtakser, The Making of Jewish revolutionaries, 49. 15

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