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Lot #
4662
Auction End Date
5/14/2003 2:50:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
A Short Statement of the Persecution of the
Title (Hebrew)
Jews in Russia
Author
Russo-Jewish Committee
City
[London]
Publication Date
1891
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
4 p., quarto, 238:155 mm., light browning.
Detailed
Description
A review of the intolerable conditions of Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement.
Paragraph 2
The Russo-Jewish Committee for Relief of Jewish Refugees (London, 1882) was organized to deal with the large-scale influx of immigrants after the outbreak of pogroms in 1881 and the May Day Laws of 1882. The Committee required funds for settling a number of refugees in England and making it possible for a larger number to migrate to the United States and Canada. Other funds were raised by the Russo-Jewish Committee in cooperation with the Board of Jewish Guardians to deal with immigrants who settled in London. In 1891, with the outbreak of pogroms in Russia, funds especially raised for immigrant work were virtually exhausted. Another meeting was convened at the Guildhall and $486,000 were donated to be used primarily but not exclusively for sending Jews westward, ICA provided additional resources to assist the Russo-Jewish Relief Committee, principally for the resettlement of immigrants in countries on both the North and South American continents.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
England:
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Subject
History:
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Other:
Anti-Semiticism
Characteristic
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Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
