I want to welcome everyone back to part 11 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Why do I want to say Solzhenitsky?

I'm really insulting the men.

I have to apologize.

I think he's heard worse than that.

I think he's heard worse than mine.

True.

But that's from his enemies. I'm not his enemy.

Right. Yeah, it

occurred to me that I just said, you know,

chap, this is part 11 of this

and I think we're going to get to the point where I'm just going to

forget the numbers and it's just going to be,

you know, hey, welcome back and let's get on.

This is going to be long, know, hey, welcome back and let's get gone. It's going to be long, but I'm with you.

It's worth it. It's worth it.

All right.

We're just going to jump in right where we ended and go from here and go to the next natural stopping point.

And here we go. Due to his incessant energy, Nicholas I, throughout his reign, did not only face failures in his efforts to transform

Jewish life in its different aspects. This was the case with Jewish agriculture. The regulations on obligations of recruitment and military

service to the Jews dated 1827 stipulated that Jewish farmers transferred on private plots were

released as well as their children from the obligation to provide recruits for a period of 50 years, exemption incurring

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