[1] To fight for Jewish rights, not to offer humble apologies, to demand emancipation, not to beg for it, this attitude lends a charm of its own to Orshanski's writings.

His brilliant analysis of "Russian Legislation concerning the Jews" [2] offers a complete anatomy of Jewish disfranchisement in Russia, beginning with Catherine II.

and ending with Alexander II.
[Footnote 1: Compare above, p.

220 et seq.] [Footnote 2: The title of his work on the same subject which appeared in St.Petersburg in 1877.] Nevertheless, being a child of his age, he preached its formula.

While a passionate Jew at heart, he championed the cause of Russification, though not in the extreme form of spiritual self-effacement.