Oh very much so. But at the same time, Jews did hold certain privileged positions of lawfully permitted business and collection of usury in banking under those very same Tsarist oligarchs.To be fair : the previous Russian oligarchs were very brutal to the Jews
even in the filth of shariah----jews were in specific
positions for interesting reasons. The most important was THE ABILITY TO READ AND WRITE----and the second was the stuff that the rulers wanted to CONTROL. You want to call that "privileged" ??? ------sorta like Scarlet's MAMMY was privileged