The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . ieves in their prisons wereJevi^s. In Vienna, the only place where I founda special policeman on duty—except, of course,the mounted police, Avho direct the traffic in thelarger thoroughfares—was in front of a drink-ing-house, used as an old-clothes exchange, inthe Judengasse, and he scarcely would havebeen there without good reason. It should also be remembered by those whoare spending their sentiment and cash on theRussian Jews that in a large part of Little Rus-sia they are not Jews at all—that is, by race—but descendants n
The Jew at home: impressions of a summer and autumn spent with him . ieves in their prisons wereJevi^s. In Vienna, the only place where I founda special policeman on duty—except, of course,the mounted police, Avho direct the traffic in thelarger thoroughfares—was in front of a drink-ing-house, used as an old-clothes exchange, inthe Judengasse, and he scarcely would havebeen there without good reason. It should also be remembered by those whoare spending their sentiment and cash on theRussian Jews that in a large part of Little Rus-sia they are not Jews at all—that is, by race—but descendants not of Semites from Judea, butof that Tartar tribe who Mere converted toJudaism centuries ago, at the time when itseemed likely that the whole of southern Rus-sia would become a Jewish empire. And a greatpity it did not, for then the Russian Jews wouldhave kept to their own home, and not come 1In IRussfa. 91 wandering westward to add to the already over-numerous social and industrial problems of Eng-land and America, As lie comes westward, tlie Jew does not. Type of Sziget Jew. put off his Eussian ways with the Eussian is because he remains practically the same— Ubc 5ew at ibome. his peculiarities exaggerated rather than toneddown—^when he settles himself in Austria andHungary, that it is so much more instructivejust now to study him in those countries thanin Russia. It is but the occasional Russian Jewwho pushes himself to the front and makes hisway to and in the Hungarian capital; for,though Buda-Pesth is fast becoming a greatJe^vish town, the majority of its rich Jews areGeiTuans or Hungarians. The Russian or PolishJew there, as a rule, is as greasy and dirty andpoor as in Berdicheff. When he does so ex-ceptionally rise in the Hungarian world, this isthe manner of his rising, as Hungarians explainit: In the first generation he comes to Mdrd-maros Sziget, or some other town near the front-ier ; in the second, he keeps an inn in the mount-ains of INIdrdmaros
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