sums, but nobody wishes to buy them. Their owners are lucky when peasants from the neighboring villages come and are willing to offer as much as fifty cents for each piece of furniture.
“It is not difficult,” the paper says, “to imagine how precarious the Jewish position is in the provinces if Jewish misery is so great even in our metropolis. The army of Jewish beggars is growing. Poverty is reaching even such Jews as only recently were well-to-do. Even real estate owners have been affected. Nevertheless, no attention is paid to our plight, and no proper understanding is shown.”
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