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If the idea behind the establishment of the Pale of Settlement was to confine the Jews to only these regions in the Russian Empire, then how did so many Jews live (seemingly legally) in Congress Poland which was part of the Empire as well?

by /u/bengalih in /r/AskHistorians

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