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Letter from Rebecca Samuel to Her Parents
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Dear Parents: I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…

Contributor:

Rebecca Samuel

Places:

Petersburg, United States of America

Date:

ca. 1792

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Family, Jewish identity, Holidays

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
A Jewish Peddler’s Diary
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On the eve of the New Year I found myself with a new career before me. What kind of career? “I don’t know”—the American’s customary reply to every difficult question. . . . I was in New York, trying…

Contributor:

Abraham Kohn

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Family, Hospitality, Travel

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries