Why this overrepresentation?

Interpretation

Why this overrepresentation?

Under the tsars, Jews were confined to the 'Pale of Settlement', subject to university quotas and targeted by pogroms. As an urban and literate minority, some of their youth turned to revolutionary movements — Bolsheviks, but also Mensheviks, the Bund or socialist Zionists. The precise explanations remain debated.

Source

Secondary source · To be verified

The Jewish Century

Yuri Slezkine — 2004

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