A few exceptions are made to the …
Years: 1868 - 1868
A few exceptions are made to the increasing restriction of Jews to settlement only in the pale—which, by the 1860s, includes all of Russian Poland, Lithuania, Byelorussia (now Belarus), most of Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula, and Bessarabia.
Some merchants and artisans, those with higher educations, and those who have completed their military service, can settle anywhere but in Finland.
