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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, Journalism

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Reportage
The House on Henry Street
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…

Contributor:

Lillian Wald

Places:

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

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Poverty, Health, Cities, Journalism

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
A Shtetl Is Starving to Death
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…

Contributor:

Henryk Erlich

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Capitalism, Health, Hunger, Poverty, Shtetl, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
The First Pioneers
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Alpersohn’s narrative about the early days of Colonia Mauricio blames the Jewish Colonization Association’s local administrators for the colonists’ suffering.

Contributor:

Mordechai Alpersohn

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Date:

1911

Subjects:

Migration, Exile, Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Poverty, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage