May laws

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- ·see Kulturkampf, above.

II. May laws ·add. ·- In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution;

— so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).

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