Ouch. Pogrom coming . . .

What I never really understood is that the Eastern Eurpean jews were poor. Jews in the old Holy Roman EMpire, in France, Spain, England usually had gathered some noticeable wealth, and / or were deptors of authorities. That was the main reason to gt rid of them. When Them are beggars and we are beggards, whats the point?

In the Russian Pale of Settlement (the area depicted), there were huge disabilities placed on the Jewish population, social and economic, that kept them down. Small wonder a huge number of revolutionaries, like the Bolsheviks, were Jews.

I mean, what was the reason for antisemitism in those parts, in comparison

Hmm, okay. Start with the fact that Russian Orthodoxy was an outgrowth of the Greek Church, and was given the 'killers of Christ' idea that the early Christian Church developed. Further, there was a nation on the north shore of the Black Sea, the Khazars, who adopted Judaism and were the enemies of the Kievan Rus (the first manifestation of the Russian state). Later, Ivan the Terrible was asked to admit Jews into the Russian lands, and he refused saying that the Jews bring strange plants and diseases with them (not to mention the religion), and were more industrious than the Russians.

Here's a Wikipedia article on slightly more modern antisemitism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antis.....Russian_Empire

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”