The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him

Joseph Pennell

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TRATIO ~^ m jrvm-c. yUvlKM> The market at Kieff. 1Fn "IRussia. 73 Jew musicians from the theatres still more ; serious was their all Jews from be-prohibiting carters and cooks. And theseing yet, although have been taken not dosteps recently, only now find the entire fur and busi-you clothing ness in their not do see themhands, only you in the markets in the lower of the townparts the and worst stuffs selling cheapest possible and sham to the at thegoods peasants highest but seem aspossible prices, they perfectly happy and contented as in no dreadAustria, showing of future or loss "of business.expulsion present It is true that can live inquite they only of the town eventwo it isquarters there,(and on one of which has beensaid, only suffrage), the richer class of theappropriated by Jews, other the but none ofpoorer ;by certainly rich or in or intheir theirthem, poor, shops look as if their life inhouses, they thought IRussia was a thread. Ashanging by single saw the Polish in in andJew Kieff, Berdicheff, on the no noRussian he wasfrontier, poorer, 10 ftbe at 1bome,Sew74 more no no more a ofmiserable, dirtier, subject than the Polish Jew in Austriadeserving pity To Kieff with an Aus-or Hungary. compare like is to learn howtrian town Lemberg slight the difference in their condition in the coun-is are free men. If in Kieff thewhere theytry are to live in a certainJews compelledpoorer in do so nowof the town, Lemberg theypart are nearfrom choice.

Sujets

• Jews
• Soviet Union
• Austria

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 24
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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