«Jewish Question» in the Pre-revolutionary Universities of Ukraine (80-s of 19th – early 20th century)

Abstract

The article considers the problem, connected with artificial difficulties, created by the royal authorities for Jewish nationality in obtaining higher education during the eighties of the 19^th – early 20^th century. We are talking about discrimination against those Jews who search after getting scientific degrees and become university professors. The history of the struggle of those representatives of the Jewish people was examined on the specific examples. Those representatives managed to overcome numerous obstacles on this way. The level of anti-Semitism was analyzed among teachers from universities of Ukraine.