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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
The Hunt in Bohemia
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The great controversy in Bohemia surrounding the language legislation shows Austrian Jews in a strange position. They go along loyally with those who only yesterday had been their fiercest enemies—and…

Contributor:

Theodor Herzl

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Nationalism, Human rights, Assimilation

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Speech at the First Zionist Congress
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Regarding the first point of the program, I was just given the honorific task to add a few words to its discussion. Although I find it very difficult at present to justify my assessment of this matter…

Contributor:

Leo Motzkin

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Zionism, Human rights, Migration, Colonialism

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches, Firsthand Accounts
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, Turkey)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand Accounts