The Life of a Jew in the Russian Empire

Marto's lived experience as a jew in the russian empire had less to do with a strong cultural orre gous identity built from within, and more to do with the negative experiences of anti semitism he had to deal with from without. Lydia later said that the myriad ways anti semitism expressed itself made her brother sympathetic to any group who found itself maltreated for ethnic, religious or class reasons. Though they were jewish, they were not particularly observant about it. And unlike lenin, who was always a loaner, martov found it easy to make and keep friends. It was at this point that he got super into the french revolution. He read everything he could