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-'''''The Little Man from Archangel''''', (original title ''Le Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk''), first published in English by [[Hamish Hamilton]] in 1957, is a novel by [[Georges Simenon]]. +'''Jews in the Russian Empire''' have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the [[Russian Empire]] at one time hosted the largest population of [[Jews]] in the [[Jewish diaspora|world]]. Within these territories the primarily [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of [[antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other [[Jewish Diaspora|Diasporan Jewish]] groups, such as [[Mountain Jews]], [[Sephardic Jews]], [[Crimean Karaites]], [[Krymchaks]], [[Bukharan Jews]], and [[Georgian Jews]].
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-It tells the story of Jonas Milk, a man whose [[Russian-Jewish]] parents, refugees from [[Arkhangelsk|Archangel]], brought him up in a little French town where he owns a bookshop. One day his promiscuous wife disappears, not for the first time, but this time she has taken his valuable stamp collection. As she fails to reappear, and first his neighbours and then the police become suspicious, his grip on his own life weakens.+
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-==Plot summary==+
-Left in an unnamed town in [[Berry, France|Berry]] by his [[Jewish]] parents, who returned to [[Soviet Russia]] and oblivion, the timid Jonas Milk lives quietly above his second-hand bookshop and also deals in rare stamps. He feels at home amongst the other small businesses in the town, until he marries his maid, a much younger woman with a bad reputation and coverts to [[Catholicism]]. She is neither a good housekeeper nor a faithful wife, and causes Milk considerable embarrasment and shame. Though she disappears with other men from time to time, she always returns soon after to Milk. +
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-However, one day when she has not come home and Milk, to spare himself yet more embarrassment, lies over her whereabouts. As the days pass, his lies are believed by fewer and fewer neighbours, who begin to shun him, +
-and somebody informs the police. His anguish is increased by the fact that his most valuable stamps, which only she knew about, are gone from his safe.+
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-The police first call round for an allegedly informal chat and then call him in to the station for a formal interrogation, followed by an exhaustive search of his premises. They are suspicious because he has not reported a missing person and, like the rest of the town, wonder if her body is in the canal as an end to her overt infidelities.+
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-Milk's worries are initially eased when a hotel chambermaid tells him that his wife has gone off with a salesman whose room she shared whenever he visited the town. Innocent all along of any crime, he first thinks of going round to the police station but, no longer able to face the hostility of the community and the pressure of the police, instead hangs himself.+
 +== See also ==
 +* [[Israel–Russia relations]]
 +* [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]
 +* [[Jewish history]] and [[Jewish diaspora]]
 +** [[Antisemitism in Imperial Russia]]
 +*** [[Relations between Eastern Orthodoxy and Judaism]]
 +** [[Antisemitism in Russia]]
 +** [[Antisemitism in the Soviet Union]]
 +** [[History of antisemitism]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Ukraine]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Belarus]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Bessarabia]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Latvia]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Lithuania]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia]]
 +** [[History of the Jews in Poland]]
 +** [[Jewish Cossacks]]
 +** [[Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]
 +** [[Lithuanian Jews]] – [[Galician Jews]] – [[Georgian Jews]] – [[Bukharan Jews]] – [[Mountain Jews]]
 +** [[Sect of Skhariya the Jew]]
 +** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s ''[[Two Hundred Years Together]]''
 +** [[Timeline of Jewish History]]
 +** [[World Jewish Congress#WJC efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry|World Jewish Congress]]
 +* Regional history
 +** [[History of Russia]]
 +** [[History of the Soviet Union]]
 +*[[List of Jews from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus]]
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Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora; the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. The largest group among Russian Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, but the community also includes a significant number of other Diasporan Jewish groups, such as Mountain Jews, Sephardic Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchaks, Bukharan Jews, and Georgian Jews.

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