The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . ed tlbe Jew at toome. Russian Jew you could want; even an Adonisor a Hercules would be at once reduced to anobject of pity and ebarity. The Jew naturally is not pbysically weakerthan the peasant. As a soldier, when he ismade to stand up straight, he is as fine a manas any other Eussian, \vxih the exception thathe can not march as well, but becomes quicklyfootsore. This is because he never takes anyexercise; he never walks, he never carries anyburdens—in fact, he never uses his hands or hislegs if he can help it. In Hungary, w
The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . ed tlbe Jew at toome. Russian Jew you could want; even an Adonisor a Hercules would be at once reduced to anobject of pity and ebarity. The Jew naturally is not pbysically weakerthan the peasant. As a soldier, when he ismade to stand up straight, he is as fine a manas any other Eussian, \vxih the exception thathe can not march as well, but becomes quicklyfootsore. This is because he never takes anyexercise; he never walks, he never carries anyburdens—in fact, he never uses his hands or hislegs if he can help it. In Hungary, when theJew is too poor or unable to get a peasant todrive him in his cai-t, he can still load a gypsywith all his traps, or, as a last resource, his wifebecomes his beast of burden. If his hair andbeard were decently cut and ti-immed, the lookof ill-health would quickly disappeai* from hisface. The real wonder is that the filth withwhich he surrounds himself does not underminehis constitution forever. That he lives longenough is proved by the large number of old. A street, BerJicheff, Un IRussia. 8i gray-headed Polish Jews one sees in every Jew-ish town. The hatred which the Russians and every-body else you meet in Kieff have for the Jewis intense. They even go so far in their preju-dice as to tell you that his being forcibly—oftencruelly—expelled is his own fault; that whenhe is told to go, he refuses to get his passportor sell his goods; that, consequently, when heis actually turned out, he has no passport, nomoney, and can not go. The Government, there-fore, sends him to the frontier; but when hearrives there and can not cross it without thenecessaiy passport, he is probably dispatched toprison, where he stays until they are tired ofkeeping him. As far as I can see, the onlydifference in this matter between a Jew and aChristian is that the Christian would make astill stronger resistance, a harder jSght for hisrights. Nevertheless, it is on such argumentsthat the Russia
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