Who Was Aaron Kosminski
Kosminski was born in 1864 to a Russian Jewess, Golda Abrahams. This was a very
unstable period for Russia, there were 'problems' with the Jews, and Tsar Nicholas 1
had to create the Pale of the Settlement to contain the problem. In the 1870's the Czar
eased restrictions and soon Jewish merchants, doctors, and lawyers flooded the cities. In
1881 Tsar Alexander II was killed by Jewish sponsored revolutionaries.
The Russian populace started exercising pograms, breaking into Jew's
houses and shops, looting and burning property, beating, raping, and frequently killing
the inhabitants. Kosminski grew up in this environment.
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There was no father in his childhood. He was raised by the mother and his
two sisters, he saw the sisters as domineering mother
figures. Aaron shares a bed with one or both of his sisters when he is living in the Pale,
and begins to develop sexual fantasies involving his sisters. He witnesses his sisters'
menstrual bleeding, and the fascination begins. Betsy would have been 12 years old in
1869, and Aaron was only 4 or 5 - and as a result of this becomes obsessed with the female
sexual organs, imagining blood or violence to be associated with sexuality.
Kominski Starts Hating Women
At 16, during the Russian pogroms, he
witnesses the rape of members of his family, and he enjoyed it. His sister's often
ridiculed his compulsive masturbation,
which in his mind signified their rejection of his sexual fantasies, and their rape was
justice.
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