Czar Alexander II had been assassinated by Nihilists in the midst of his reformist activities, among which were the measures admitting Jews to the high schools and universities, and giving Jewish ...

A group of 43 Jewish families started the Alliance Colony in 1882, ... But after Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by anarchists in 1881, ...

Even before the waves of Eastern European Jewish immigration began in 1881 following the assassination of Czar Alexander II, Jewish life in America was steadily growing.