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The Affirmation of the Diaspora
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We all recognize the tragic aspects of the Diaspora and we cannot hope to achieve in the Diaspora as full and complete national-cultural development as is possible for a nation living in its own…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnow

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Diaspora, Zionism, Nationalism, Yiddish, Polemics, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
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, Türkiye)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand accounts