{"id":2244,"date":"2021-04-22T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:26:44","slug":"jewish-persecution-in-russia-and-its-influence-on-jewish-immigration-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Jewish persecution in Russia and its influence on Jewish immigration to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history team are excited to learn that recent UoP history graduate Emily Burgess has set up her own consultancy, Midas Tomes, for historical research and writing.\u00a0 Emily produced an outstanding dissertation on the female South London gang known as the Forty Elephants so it is great to see her prosper!<\/p>\n<p>Checkout this blog post from another UoP history graduate Ben Humphreys on the website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midastomes.com\/themidastomesblog\/blogpostone\">https:\/\/www.midastomes.com\/themidastomesblog\/blogpostone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?attachment_id=2245\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg?fit=640%2C433&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,433\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg?fit=640%2C433&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2245 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg?resize=640%2C433\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click here to see previous posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=2043\">Ben <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-qo\">Emily<\/a> on the UoP history blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history team are excited to learn that recent UoP history graduate Emily Burgess has set up her own consultancy, Midas Tomes, for historical research and writing.\u00a0 Emily produced an outstanding dissertation on the female South London gang known as the Forty Elephants so it is great to see her prosper! Checkout this blog post from another UoP history graduate Ben Humphreys on the website. https:\/\/www.midastomes.com\/themidastomesblog\/blogpostone &nbsp; Click here to see previous posts by Ben and Emily on the UoP history blog. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[540,7,18],"tags":[396,653,17,655,654,656,11,98],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-news","category-public-history","tag-immigration","tag-jewish-history","tag-nineteenth-century","tag-pogroms","tag-religious-persecution","tag-russian-history","tag-slider","tag-twentieth-century"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stop-your-cruel-oppression-of-the-jews-flohri-cropped.jpg?fit=624%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-Ac","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}