Sunday, October 14, 2012

The Chofetz Chaim as pogrom victim

This is Newark's Jewish Chronicle's account of a pogrom in Radin in 1922, and how it personally affected the Chofetz Chaim, who was dragged outside from his sickbed, and his pillows stolen by marauders.


4 comments:

  1. Please provide a link to the Jewish Chronicle. Thank you!

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  2. It's archived here

    http://www.newsbank.com/readex/?content=96

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  3. Thanks, but apparently entry into that site is barred unless you pay the toll.

    I tried the Historical JTA Archives freely available @ < http://archive.jta.org/search# > but thus far accessibility remains limited, as the archive only begins from January 1923 - slightly more than 5 months after the episode.

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  4. It is indeed a pay archive, sorry.

    This is probably word for word from the JTA.

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