Peter is trying to give you a quick overview of a series of social movements that transformed Jewish culture, and Jewish life situations from the 19th to the 20th century. And one of the things he suggested is that the Jews thought of themselves now, not as just individual groups of people in different areas, but they were now living, a huge number, in the Pale of Settlement. They were all speaking a common language. And one of the things that happened is that the Jews of the Pale of Settlement develop a separate Jewish culture, separate from the Russia that they're part of. And this is different from what happens to the Jews of Western Europe, and he'll talk to you about that. However, these Jews have limited economic possibilities, and limited, very limited, political opportunities. And comes the crisis, what do they do? They can immigrate. They can become Zionists. They can become Jewish socialists because they're thrown out of the regular socialist party. But what he's told you implicitly is that these Jews now have bonded with each other. And what we also see is a huge upsurge of Jewish cultural expression including a great Yiddish literature, Sholem Aleichem is one, but a great Hebrew literature suddenly comes into being. And later on, the Soviets will admire the Jews for their cultural creativity. Another thing that happens is because of the telegraph and the telegram. Jews are now connected to each other as they were not in the past, including the large Jewish population that's growing in the United States. And the Jews of Western Europe who take an interest in what's happening to the Jewish communities In the Pale of Settlement. So, one pogrom happens in 1903 and takes place in the town of Kishinev, and this produces a very famous Hebrew poem by Hayim Nahman Bialik, called the City of Slaughter. As pogroms go, there weren't so many people killed. Couple of hundred, a few rapes, a lot of breaking of stuff, but this becomes a focal point that galvanizes the Jewish community. And this is before the murders that Peter talked about from the Civil War. But this rouses people to see the situation of the Jews in the Russian empire as terrible. And this leads to all kinds of responses, including the notion that the Jews have no future in the Russian Empire. Therefore, destroy the Russian Empire by becoming a Bolshevik, emmigrate to the United States or Western Europe, or imagine yourselves as part of a country of your own. And these Jews, who are not the one Herzl thought would go to Palestine, become the backbone of modern Zionism. If you're interested in the literature, look at Isaac Babel who writes brilliantly about a number of things and he has a wonderful story about a pogrom called, The Story of My Dovecot. He raises pigeons, the young boy, dovecot. And he has a another wonderful story called Gedali, which is about how just an average Jewish shopkeeper has to deal with these series of social movements that are happening as a result of the crisis, and we have to keep separate, the different Issues of the different kinds of crises. But the upshot is, as Peter says, you have three choices. Emigrate to America, become a Zionist, or become someone who wants to in a Jewish way, change Russia. And all of those happened. >> The Fiddler on the Roof. >> And that's of course, The Fiddler on the Roof, by Sholem Aleichem. >> The three daughters. >> And there are three daughters. How many of you have seen Fiddler on the Roof? >> [LAUGH] >> Okay, so you've seen that. And one of the great issues in Fiddler on the Roof is the way in which Jewish tradition is changing and yet Jewish tradition is continuing, therefore the famous song. >> The three daughters choose the three different. The three daughters choose the three different ways.