Eddy Portnoy
By Eddy Portnoy
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Culture Lower East Side Anarchist Declares Hunger Strike in Prison
1914 • 100 years ago An Anarchist in Manhattan Rebecca Edelson, a well-known anarchist on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has declared a hunger strike in prison, where she is serving a three-month stint after being arrested for refusing to stop giving a speech on a street corner. According to eyewitnesses, hooligans were throwing stones at…
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Culture Palestine Jews on Lockdown Following Violence
1914 • 100 years ago Betrayed by Sister and Husband Nine years ago, Sam and Ida Weiner were married and living happily in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where he worked as a carpenter in a trim factory. The Weiners had three lovely children: 7-year-old Rosie, 5-year-old Sam and 2-year-old Saraleh. About nine months ago,…
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Culture Jewish Civil Rights Activists Killed in Mississippi
1914 • 100 years ago Bagel Monopoly of Norfolk Street Anyone who hangs around the corner of New York City’s Hester and Norfolk Streets at about 5 a.m. knows of the boisterous baked-good market there, where Jews and Jewesses sell all manner of challahs, cakes, rolls and all kinds of other good things. This writer…
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Culture Brooklyn Nags Breathe a Sigh of Relief at ‘King of the Horse Poisoners’ Capture
1914 • 100 years ago Attack of the Horse Poisoner Hyman Edelstein, or, as he is known to the police, the “King of the Horse Poisoners,” was arraigned in a Brooklyn courtroom for having allegedly approached a Brooklyn horse handler, Charles Rosenbaum, demanding $100 or he would “poison his nags.” Rosenbaum handled the situation cleverly,…
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Culture Crown Heights Jews Defending Themselves Against Hooligans
1914 • 100 years ago From Pogroms to Ellis Island As many readers already know, 800 Jewish families were expelled from Kiev about five weeks ago. The first of these unhappy immigrants landed recently on Ellis Island. An immigration official presented one of them, a cantor by the name of Eliyahu Teller, to reporters as…
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Culture Family Escaping Russian Pogrom Incarcerated on Ellis Island
1914 • 100 years ago The Island of Blood and Tears Avrom Pogrebensky, a night watchman, scrimped and saved to bring his wife, Sarah Pogrebensky, and their two sons over to America from Samarkand, Russia. Finally united, the family was set to begin a new life in New York. But the school that the Pogrebenskys’…
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Culture Nikita Khrushchev Denounces Israel to Egyptians
1914 • 100 years ago A Lion of Socialism is Dead Daniel De Leon, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, died of a heart attack at Mount Sinai Hospital. The news that De Leon is dead will call forth the deepest feelings of sadness in every Socialist’s heart. A lion has passed. Figures such as…
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Culture American Protection for Mexican Oil Fields
1913 •100 years ago Military Protection for Mexican Oil Fields The latest news about Mexico makes it clear why such a murderous patriotism is being heated up and instigated in America: It’s cooking on an oil fire. Human blood must flow so that the oil supply will grow – in the tanks of the company…
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