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A Shtetl Is Starving to Death
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…

Contributor:

Henryk Erlich

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Capitalism, Health, Hunger, Poverty, Shtetl, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Letter to a Nursing Convention in St. Louis
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion. Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…

Contributor:

Rose Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Health, Medicine, Poverty, Mizrahi, Israel/Israelis, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters