The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . o j3 IFn IRussia. 89 ant, who is, perhaps, the dullest creature Godever made; but that is the whole extent of hiscleverness. A poor Jew in the West was oncethought a physical and moral impossibility; ina country like mediaeval England, despite per-secution more relentless and cruel than that towhich he is ?now subjected in Russia, he throveand prospered and was always rich. The aver-age Polish Jew in Russia not only is wretch-edly poor, but he seems reconciled to his pov-erty. What the personal morals of the Jew,whose chastit
The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . o j3 IFn IRussia. 89 ant, who is, perhaps, the dullest creature Godever made; but that is the whole extent of hiscleverness. A poor Jew in the West was oncethought a physical and moral impossibility; ina country like mediaeval England, despite per-secution more relentless and cruel than that towhich he is ?now subjected in Russia, he throveand prospered and was always rich. The aver-age Polish Jew in Russia not only is wretch-edly poor, but he seems reconciled to his pov-erty. What the personal morals of the Jew,whose chastity is his great boast, may be inthese countries, I have no means of judging;but I know that if he thinks he can increasehis own gains by pandering to the immoralityof others, he is quite ready to do so. In smallAustrian towns of five or six hundred inhabit-ants I have had overtures made to me by Jewsin curls and caftan which hitherto I had neverheard even suggested, save in the large cities ofwestern Europe. Nor is he in other ways more virtuous and orderly than
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