'The Book of the Kahal'
Jews were expelled from towns in Russia (what are today in Poland and Ukraine) starting from 1881 to 1882. The ‘final straw’ had been the assassination / murder of the Russian Tsar Alexander II in March of 1881. One of the captured conspirators was Jewish and it was widely believed that it has been a predominantly jewish plot / conspiracy. This belief is borne out by the preponderance of jews in the later anti-monarchist revolution and the subsequent bolshevik revolution of 1917.
But what had preceded and precipitated the widespread outrage against jews was the increasing awareness of Jewish secret councils (
kahals) and their practices. This was the primary cause of the anti-Jewish feelings. The assassination of the Czar had been a secondary cause. This is even acknowledged by some Jewish historians, e.g. Michael Aronson,
"Geographical and Socioeconomic Factors in the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia", Russian Review, Vol. 39, No. 1. (Jan., 1980), pp. 18–31).
In the 1860's in Tsarist Russia a Jew from Vilnus named
Jacob Brafman had exposed the practices there of Jewish communities known as
kahals (or Qahals).
Brafman was a Jewish Professor of Hebrew Studies at the Orthodox Seminary in Minsk. He was a Lithuanian Jew who converted to Christianity: first to Lutheranism and then to the Russian Orthodox Church. He had translated from Yiddish to Russian the minutes of the
kahal in Minsk and beginning in 1867 began publishing them and explaining them in a local newspaper. These were later published as a book called
'The Book of the Kahal'.
Brafman wrote in that book of the procedures and methods employed by Jewish communities across Europe which transgressed the laws limiting their civil rights in the countries where they resided. Among their listed methods he included
“to exclude from trade and industry the members of other religions and to concentrate in their own hands all capital and real estate”.
When people read and discovered how they had been cheated and defrauded by secret cabals of jews, they were naturally upset.
Brafman later revealed more of the secret Jewish communities co-ordination and attitudes to their non-Jewish neighbours and fellow citizens in a book called
'Local and universal Jewish brotherhoods' in 1869.
These revelations were responsible for increased mistrust, resentment and violent reprisals known as
progroms against Jewish communities in Russia.
This internal exposure by a Russian Jew of the Jewish
kahals stated that
"these brotherhoods are the major arteries of Jewish society... They link all the Jews scattered over the globe into one powerful and invincible body."
Brafman wrote that these
kahals existed all around the world and were under the authority of the Alliance Israélite Universelle whose headquarters were in France (the land of the first successful European anti-monarchical revolution).
These two books were then translated and published in the rest of Europe. This fed pre-existing fears that all Jewish communities and all Jews throughout the world felt little patriotic allegiance to their resident nations, were parasitic and could not be trusted.
That the revelations in the
‘Book of the Kahal’ were a primary factor for the riots / progroms and expulsions is not part of ‘official history’ because here also [as with Sir Richard Burton’s exposé of Jewish Ritual Murder] the jews who are in positions to control the narratives which people can easily become aware of, do not want people to know about these practices as they STILL employ them.
They keep this info suppressed in the same way that jews who can control the narrative of the Jeffrey Epstein case do not permit his client-list to be publicly revealed because they STILL want to benefit from the ability to blackmail those on it.
