Wonderful changes have occurred in Jewish life since the first pogrom broke out at Elizabethgrad. 50 years ago to-day the first pogrom broke out at Elizabethgrad. 50 years ago to-day the Palestine Hebrew daily “Haaretz” writes, recalling the anniversary of the beginning of the Russian pogroms.
The Jewish people have since that time become nationally-conscious, and filled with the vision of deliverance, the paper says. We have a long road still to travel, it concludes, but we have gone part of the road, and the going is no longer as difficult as it was.
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