 The anti-Jewish riots of 1880 and 1881 however, aroused in Lilienblum a consciousness of the unsafe position of the Jews "in exile," and he wrote of his apprehensions in an article entitled "Obshcheyevreiski Vopros i Palestina" (in "Razsvyet", 1881, Nos.41, 42); in it he points to the reestablishment of the Jews in Palestine as the only solution of the Jewish question.This article did not remain without results; some hailed the idea as practical, and set themselves to realize it.