Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

==18th century==
[[File:Sandomierz katedra - mord rytualny.jpg|thumb|250px|Painting in [[Sandomierz Cathedral]], Poland, depicts Jews murdering Christian children for their [[Blood libel|blood]], ~ 1750.]]
In accordance with the anti-Jewish precepts of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]],<ref name=Beller>Steven Beller (2007)  Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press 2007. 
{{ISBN|978-0192892775}}</ref>{{rp|14}} Russia's discriminatory policies towards Jews intensified when the [[partition of Poland]] in the 18th century resulted, for the first time in Russian history, in the possession of land with a large Jewish population.<ref name=Beller/>{{rp|28}} This land was designated as the [[Pale of Settlement]] from which Jews were forbidden to migrate into the interior of Russia.<ref name=Beller/>{{rp|28}}  In 1772 [[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]], the empress of Russia, forced the Jews living in the Pale of Settlement to stay in their ''[[shtetls]]'' and forbade them from returning to the towns that they occupied before the partition of Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html |title=The Virtual Jewish History Tour By Rebecca Weiner |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |access-date=2013-07-10}}</ref>