Klaus Bloemker (not verified) says:

Interesting story. Phil should tell us something about the way his people lived in Russia/Poland around 1900.

Here is what the Berlin Jew Dr. Jakob Frommer wrote in 1911: "When one wants to see an ethnological sensation one doesn't have to roam far-flung lands. One just has to take a day-trip from Berlin. Go east, cross the Russian border and you find a race nearly unknown to the civilized world, a race full of enigma and wonders."

Klaus

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