The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . the Russian frontier; andin all these places, in which few, if any, of hismodern historians and defenders have been, Ihave seen him and considered him with thatinterest which he, there in such a powerfulmajority, commands. To write about his re-ligion or his social and political condition isbeyond my purpose; I merely wish to describehim as I saw him, to say something about howhe lives and what he does. Mdr^maros Sziget is a town of about six-teen thousand inhabitants, situated in the ex-treme northeastern part of Hungary. Am
The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . the Russian frontier; andin all these places, in which few, if any, of hismodern historians and defenders have been, Ihave seen him and considered him with thatinterest which he, there in such a powerfulmajority, commands. To write about his re-ligion or his social and political condition isbeyond my purpose; I merely wish to describehim as I saw him, to say something about howhe lives and what he does. Mdr^maros Sziget is a town of about six-teen thousand inhabitants, situated in the ex-treme northeastern part of Hungary. Amongthese sixteen thousand one can find almost allthe races of that part of Europe, but consid-erably more than half the population to-day areJews, and these are Polish and Russian Jews Utt austrfa anJ) Ibungar?. 31 who have come there within the last thirty orforty years. It is a typical Hungarian town,stretching out in almost every direction fromits large central square, its long streets inhab-ited mainly by Hungarians and Wallachs, who fr;^-|)iiiliii, \¥ s^:!^.. ^iNtJi^li In the Jews quarter, Maramaros Sziget. there build their one storied cottages and hidethemselves behind their high wooden you get a glimpse into their yards, yousee the usual farmyard litter of any other coun- 32 Xlbe 3ew at Ibome. try town. But unless the Jew has some busi-ness with these people, he is never in theirquarter. To find him you must come down tothe 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 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 strongerre
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