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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…
As soon as [Opotowski] came, he and the others were told that their chances of securing employment in a region where there are few Jews will be much better if they do not have such long beards. He and…
The heading of this advertisement for an “excursion” offered by the Yiddish daily newspaper Forverts reads: “From where are you a landsman?” (i.e., What town did you come from in the old county?). It…
The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…
Alpersohn’s narrative about the early days of Colonia Mauricio blames the Jewish Colonization Association’s local administrators for the colonists’ suffering.
In the past few years, I have become increasingly interested in Sendak’s work, reading his books for my own pleasure as well as for the amusement of my…
Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the administration’s treatment of farmers.