L'ebreo a casa: Impressioni di un'estate e di un autunno trascorsi con lui . centro della città, dove la grande massa degli otto o diecimila ebrei è stata proclamata in una strada, vivendo non meglio di inWhitechapel. Hanno appropriato non onlythe vecchie case che si trovano ad un'estremità di thesquare, ma la metà del grande hotel e edifici cittadini recentemente messi in su nel mezzo di it.And qui sciame, come se gli alloggi fossero asscarce e costosi come nel cuore di una grande città come Londra. Vivono in cantine e garette, in viuzza e in corte, in uno stato sporco e sporco, che è portato fuori io

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The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . center of the town, where the great bulk ofthe eight or ten thousand Jews are herded to-gether in one street, living no better than inWhitechapel. They have appropriated not onlythe old houses which lie at one end of thesquare, but half the large hotel and townbuildings recently put up in the middle of it.And here they swarm, as if lodgings were asscarce and expensive as in the heart of a greatcity like London. They live in cellars and ingarrets, in alley-ways and up courts, in a state offilth and dirt, which is brought out in strongerrelief because of the comparative cleanliness ofthe peasant quarters. With the exception of this filth—but thisis horribly serious—there is little on the sur-face Avith which one can reproach them. Theyare always working, though rarely, if ever, withtheir hands; they are endlessly bargaining or tn Hustria anJ) Ibungarg. 33 haggling about sometlimg. If a peasant bringsin a few watermelons, be turns tbem over tothe Jew middleman, wbo acts as commission. Jew with peasants to hire, Maramaros Sziget. merchant—at what commission, however, I donot know. If the peasant wants to be hired, he usually goes not directly to the farmer, butto the Jew, who at daybreak is arranging histerms in the large central market - square and 34 Hbe 5ew at Ibome. in the court-yards suiTounding it. In Mdrd-maros Sziget, however, I saw Jews really do-ing something besides buying and selling; theywere the cab-drivers of the town. The onlyother place where I found them making anypretense to using their hands was in Berdicheff, where a few were hiring themselves out aswood - sawyers. In KiefE, those who were car-ters and cooks had been expelled. If you ask the people of Mdrdmaros Sziget— whether the Hungarians or Germans, theRuthenians or Wallachs — about the Jew, notone will have a good word to say. for him. Themagistrate will tell you that there are moreJews on his charge list than all the

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• booksubjectjews
• bookyear1892