Pogrom literally mean to wreak havoc and to violently demolish, which was exactly what the Russians did to the Jews. Russians believed that Jews posed an economic, political threat initiating social hatred towards Jews. So many Jews were harmed and killed in the duration of these pogroms. Constable, a Russian military officer in Fiddler on the Roof, announced to the Jews of Anatevka that they must leave unless they want the government to force them out. Here, Constable most likely implies that the government would have killed them if the Jews would not have left. If the Jews would have protected their traditions by staying in the shtetl, they would have been killed by the Russian government, therefore being unable to practice any form of Judaism. The threat of government force on Jews posed a greater threat than that of the possibility of assimilating, because the characters mentioned above showed signs of somewhat assimilating into regular, modern values, yet their faith in God did not
Pogrom literally mean to wreak havoc and to violently demolish, which was exactly what the Russians did to the Jews. Russians believed that Jews posed an economic, political threat initiating social hatred towards Jews. So many Jews were harmed and killed in the duration of these pogroms. Constable, a Russian military officer in Fiddler on the Roof, announced to the Jews of Anatevka that they must leave unless they want the government to force them out. Here, Constable most likely implies that the government would have killed them if the Jews would not have left. If the Jews would have protected their traditions by staying in the shtetl, they would have been killed by the Russian government, therefore being unable to practice any form of Judaism. The threat of government force on Jews posed a greater threat than that of the possibility of assimilating, because the characters mentioned above showed signs of somewhat assimilating into regular, modern values, yet their faith in God did not