[281] It has been conjectured that Pestel was influenced by his fellow-Decembrist Gregory Peretz, a son of the converted tax-farmer Abraham Peretz in St. Petersburg (see p. 333 and p. 388). Peretz advocated on numerous occasions the necessity of organizing a society for the purpose of liberating the scattered Jews and settling them in the Crimea or in the Orient, "in the shape of a separate nationality." Transcriber's Notes Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired. There are a few words in Hebrew, Greek and Polish that may not be displayed correctly on your reader. Both "pot-houses" and "pothouses" appear and have not been changed. P. 15: "συναγογῆς" changed to "συναγωγῆς". P. 65: "ecomonic" changed to "economic" (a big economic and social factor). P. 267: "orginators" changed to "originators" (the originators of the parliamentary Constitution). P. 313: "betwen" changed to "between" (between Jew and Jew). P. 346: "innkepers" changed to "innkeepers" (Jewish tenants and innkeepers). P. 374: "Irsael" changed to "Israel" (restoring peace in Israel). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I (of 3), by S. M. Dubnow