In this feuilleton, Moshe Bunem Yustman, better known by his pseudonym “Yeushzon,” criticizes the discrimination against Jews in traditional dress, who were banned from entering a lavish public park in Warsaw that abutted a Jewish neighborhood. Given the constraints of czarist censorship, the feuilleton focuses on how this ban corrupts the Jewish community and erodes Jewish solidarity. At the same time, this feuilleton makes a strong political statement as it spotlights both a local Warsaw concern and the discrimination against the Jews in the Russian Empire more generally.

They Let Me into the Saxon Garden!

מ׳לאזט מיך שוין אריין אין זאקסישען גארטען

M'lozt mikh shoyn arayn in zakshisn gortn

November 22, 1911

Feuilleton

Daniel Kennedy

Ofer Dynes

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antisemitism, Jewish tradition, non-Jews, Beilis affair, Poland, Warsaw