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The Organization of the Jewish Proletariat in Russia
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Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…

Contributor:

Sara Rabinowitsch

Places:

Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Class, Rebellion, Human rights, Jewish identity, Poverty

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Reportage
A Slice of Bread
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…

Contributor:

Yosef Haim Brenner

Places:

Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Poverty, Hunger, Family, Class, Antisemitism

Categories:

Fiction
Reflexoens politicos tocante a constituaçāo da Naçāo Judaica (Political Reflections Concerning the Constitution of the Jewish Nation)
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No matter what the body of the Nation, be it in the form of a kingdom or a republic, it comprises various classes of people; as for the nobles, who make the state blossom through commerce, increased…

Contributor:

Isaac de Pinto

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Economic life, Diaspora, Class, Poverty, Assimilation

Categories:

Political Culture, Law, Historical writing