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Memoirs of a Jewish Colonist
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I. Of Pimps, Prostitutes, and Other SeducersWe saw some ten richly-dressed women, accompanied by fat-bellied men in top hats, standing at the green metal gate of the immigrants’ hotel. Through the…

Contributor:

Mordechai Alpersohn

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Date:

1922

Subjects:

Migration, Synagogue, Prostitution, Purity, Sabbath

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
A European Feminist Decries Sex Trafficking in the Ottoman Empire
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911 Dear Mrs. N., I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…

Contributor:

Bertha Pappenheim

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand Accounts