TOWNS AND PEOPLE – RIGA
TOWNS AND PEOPLE – RIGA

Author(s): Mendel Bobe
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, History of Judaism
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: In an earlier section we described the rapid growth of the Jewish population of Riga from about 400 souls in 1842 to a total of 33,000 in 1913. These seventy years were accompanied by an exceptional development in the economic significance of Riga Jews for the trade of the entire region; leading to open and concealed toleration on the part of the Tsarist authorities towards this Jewish concentration, though it was outside the Pale of Settlement. Here we shall try to show who these Jews were who took so active a part in stabilizing the position of their community; and this not only with regard to their economic significance but also on account of their unique qualities as a Jewish community first and foremost.

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