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Letter to His Son
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…

Contributor:

Eliezer Morawczyk

Places:

Tymbarg, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tymbark, Poland)

Date:

1588

Subjects:

Family, Children, Parenthood, Plague, Migration, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
A Rebuttal to Opotowski
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As soon as [Opotowski] came, he and the others were told that their chances of securing employment in a region where there are few Jews will be much better if they do not have such long beards. He and…

Contributor:

Cyrus L. Sulzberger

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Migration, Assimilation, Travel, Jewish identity, Profession, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Reportage
A Bintel Brief
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Dear Editor,I am one of those unfortunate girls thrown by fate into a dark and dismal shop, and I need your counsel.Along with my parents, sisters and brothers, I came from Russian Poland where I had…

Contributor:

The Forward

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Profession, Sexism, Migration, Journalism, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Letters