Archives for March 2018

Parkman Volume 2, Chapter 31

The Jesuits at St. Joseph knew not what course to take. The doom of their flock seemed inevitable.Previously in The Jesuits in North America in the

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Who Was Szechenyi?.IntroductionWhen one thinks of the Hungarian

Today's installment concludes A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews,the name of our combined selection from Richard Gottheil and Vladamir Korolenko. The

Then the murderers emerged from the same opening by which the victims had escaped.Continuing A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews,our selection from

At House No. 13 cries of murder and of death were soon ringing through the air to the accompaniment of falling stones, cracking walls, and breaking

With an involuntary shudder we turned aside from this pool where blood was mixed with mortar, rubbish, and feathers.Continuing A Russian Pogrom

My desire is to place before my readers some reflection of the feeling of horror which overcame me during my short stay at Kishineff two months after

Towards evening, parties of fugitives reached St. Matthias, with tidings of the catastrophe.Previously in The Jesuits in North America in the

The plain fact is this, that life for the Jew in Russia, as well as for the Jew in Romania, has passed beyond the enduring point.Continuing A