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Map 7. The Jewish Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire

be registered, they needed to be given surnames. In Austria and Russia, regis-
tration proceeded from 1791; in Prussia, which at that time included Warsaw,
it was carried out by the Judenreglement of 1797. In Galicia and in Prussia,
the Jews were often awarded surnames according to the dictates of
German officials, who used the occasion to exercise their limited sense of poetic
invention. In this way, the world was given the Apfelbaums, Rosenblums,