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The pogroms of the 1880s caused a worldwide outcry and, along with harsh laws, propelled mass Jewish emigration. Among the passed antisemitic laws were the 1882 May Laws. They prohibited Jews from moving into villages in an attempt to address the cause of the pogroms, when in fact, the pogroms were caused by a different reason. The majority of High Commission for the Review of Jewish Legislation (1883-1888) actually noted the fact that almost all of the pogroms had begun in the towns and attempted to abolish the Laws. Yet, the minority of the High Commission ignored the facts and backed the anti-semitic May Laws. Two million Jews fled the Russian Empire between 1880 and 1914, with many going to the United Kingdom and United States.

Copied from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire.

For decades after the 1880 pogroms, most government officials had anti-semitic beliefs that Jews in villages were "dangerous"than Jews who lived in towns. The Minister of the Interior Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev rejected the theory that pogroms were caused by revolutionary socialists was and instead, he adopted the idea that they were a protest against Jewish exploitation by the rural population. With this idea in mind, he wrongly believed and spread the idea that pogroms had spread from villages to towns. Historians today recognize that although rural peasantry did largely participate in the pogrom violence, pogroms began in the towns and spread to the villages.

Hasidism

Religious movement

Hasidism is a movement of religious revival that arose in the second quarter of the 18th century.