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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