Kaufmann

[mariab]

Lynn,
I know about Benjamin Feigenbaum and I kept an eye out for him, but NO mention of him whatsoever in the spy reports. I don't recall if I've stressed enough how fragmental these spy reports are, as in, there's only a tiny, random amount of them, and they often refer to parts and documents which are MISSING in the reports. Where the rest of the documents are, is not clear yet, but definitely NOT in the Archives Nationales inventaries. Possibly they could be in the secret police archives in the Paris Police Museum, where I intend to look in March. I've also heard that there might be some relevant stuff also in the Archives in Fontainebleau and please believe me, I haven't forgotten about this.

Lynn Cates wrote:
Yes, The Jewish Standard is available in the Newspaper Archive.
Thank God for small favors. I'll most certainly check it up, soon.

Lynn Cates wrote:
Tscherkesov was an old timer (ex aristocrat, I think, from Georgia) who grew old with the movement. I believe he knew Wess (I am getting this from Fishman).
Wow, Lynn, are you aware of what you're implying here?!? There is a Schwartz who talked just after Tcherkesow on that particular gathering at the Vonderhall. We really need to clear up if we might be dealing with Israel Schwartz here. Which would bring out profound consequences on the interpretation of the events of September 30, 1888 on Berner Street.

Lynn Cates wrote:
Can you find an AF from 1905? Perhaps you or I could chat up some of Sam Dreen's descendants? Perhaps they have back issues?
I take it that Sam Dreen was the last AF editor? I'm sure that you and other more experienced Ripperologists would know how to get hold of AF from January/February 1905? But won't it simply be available at the British Library online newspapers database? You know what? After the Xmas holidays I'll be working with Meyerbeer autograph scores at the Berliner Staatsbibliothek everyday, and I have it in mind to look up what anarchist journals from the late 19th/early 20th century they might have. They might even feature Der Arbeter Fraint, who knows?!

Lynn Cates wrote:
You are promoted to what? An infector? (heh-heh)
Hopefully an infector of only radical political and research ideas than any diseases (which I'm fairly sure I don't carry).

[Debra A]

This gathering took place in the evening before yesterday on February 5 at the Vonderland Hall, under the presidency of Tchaikowsky. The room, fitting 2.000-3000 attendees, was filled to its full capacity, so that many attendees were unable to enter. The usual orators Tarrida del Marmo, Turner, Burk, Wilkin, Schwartz, Morleit, Tcherkesow pronounced particularly violent speeches in four or five different languages.

I mentioned this to Maria, this is 'Vonderland' I think:



More information on the history of the place can be found on this website:

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/PavilionTheatreAndWonderlandWhitechapelRoad.htm

Maria, I have been checking through some LSE (British Library political and social science) pamphlets to see if any Schwartz is mentioned, no luck yet.

[lynn cates]

Feigenbaum

Hello Maria. Feigenbaum emigrated later on, 1891. Kranz (Rombro), the year before that.

Dreen knew a good deal about all things anarchist. He was something like Rocker's shadow I believe.

Yes, there are many implications about Schwartz. Let's keep looking.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Debs,
thank you SO very much for all the information on the Wonderland. I've posted some brief info about it (quoting you) also in the Stride and the grapes thread.
Debra A wrote:
Maria, I have been checking through some LSE (British Library political and social science) pamphlets to see if any Schwartz is mentioned, no luck yet.
Debs, you're a lifesaver. I do hope this Schwartz dude turns up somewhere. I'll look up for (negative) references of him in The Jewish Standard. There was another French spy report from 1902 or 1904 mentioning this no-first-name-Schwartz as a skilled anarchist orator in Yiddish, Polish, and Hungarian. Very stupidly (due to having needed to go through the stuff very quickly, on hectic conditions) I forgot to shoot this report, but I'll go shoot it in March, when back to Paris. Here I feel compelled to mention that the 2 boxes with the spy reports at the Paris Archives Nationales were being used by another researcher and were impossible to order officially at the time. Without the friendly help of 3 young librarians I happen to know well at the Archives Nationales, I would be still waiting for these boxes to get available. These 3 librarian guys are amazingly quick and competent. (They're easy on the eyes too.) Vive la France.

To Lynn Cates:
Thank you for the information, Lynn, and please keep an eye for any Schwartz in your sweaters documents.
In January I'll go look if the Berliner Staatsbibliothek might feature Der Arbeter Fraint.

[mariab]

Lynn,
in reference to my post #75, do you have a clue of who this father Gapone dude was who didn't show up, while the French spies were so interested in him? He sounds like an Italian monk/socialist?! Such a shame. No father Gapone!

[Roy Corduroy]

Good morning Maria,

Father Gapon was involved in the labor struggles leading up to the 1905 revolution. He slipped away to France and England then. Later he went back to Russia and met an untimely fate.

Roy

[mariab]

Wow, amazing! (Tall hat too.) Thank you SO very much for the information, Roy Cordyroy. Was he French or Italian? He looks like a serious, ascetic socialist/priest.

[Rob Clack]

I'm posting these for Maria, who will explain there significance.

[Rob Clack]

and one more.



Rob

[lynn cates]

Juives

Hello Rob and Maria. Thanks. Must beware of those Juives. Seems they are not the men to be blamed for nothing.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Well said, Lynn!
I gotta go meet my friends for a couple hours, but I'll be back soon.

[lynn cates]

old hat

Hello Maria. Thanks.

Although what I am about to say is old hat, please bear with me.

Take the spelling of Jews above ("Juives") and write it on a slip of paper with a pencil. Neglect to dot the "i." What does it look like?

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn Cates wrote:
Take the spelling of Jews above ("Juives") and write it on a slip of paper with a pencil. Neglect to dot the "i." What does it look like?
Yes, I know. The same can be said about the infamous “Dear Sor“. (While the rest of the “i“s in the letter feature dots.)

[mariab]

the Jewish socialists and Balfour

I'm back (from a wonderful evening in knee deep pow in Xmasy, illuminated Berlin, including a quick but super yummy dinner at an Italian restaurant and an even quicker visit to an Italian drumm and bass club), so here goes the translation of the first spy report (starting from the bottom), kindly cleaned up and posted here by Rob Clack. NOTE: Tcherkesow, William Wess' buddy, turns up here again. Does anybody know who Alladin (and his magic lantern) was? Here goes:

Paris, November 3, 1904 (from London).
Jewish revolutionaries in England.
“New Times“.
Issue #34 of “New Times“, the publication for Jewish Russian democrat revolutionaries in London, has just come out in print.
In his editorial column the editor says that, in agreement with the executive committee of the socialist democratic British federation, the democrat socialists Jewish Russians of the London East End decided to ask Mr. Balfour, the prime minister, to immediately convene a parlamentary comittee for finding the means to provide the numerous unemployed workers with jobs.
A very interesting literary gathering was organized by the socialist democrat party of the Jewish Russians to celebrate the anniversary of Tschernishewsky. The gathering in question took plase at the “House of the people“ on Princelet Street. Tcherkesow and Alladin gave speeches.

[mariab]

“Der Arbeter Fraint“ and Kropotkin

Second spy report (starting from the bottom):

Paris, January 19, 1906 (from London).
The Jewish Russian revolutionary group “The worker's friend“.

The Jewish Russian revolutionary group “The worker's friend“, led by the anarchist Jewish federation, has just cocluded a Jewish translation of Kropotkin's “The words of a revolutionary“, the first chapters of which have been published in the French anarchist journal “La Révolte“ {“The rebellion“}.
The group is proposing a publication of this book, which treats the question of “communism and anarchy“ for Jewish propaganda in England and in Russia.
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The anarchist journal “The worker's friend“, led by the anarchist Jewish federation in Paris and in Great Britain, started the publication of a series of articles this week under the title “Bread and will“ {sic: “Bread at will“}.
These articles were written specifically by Mr. Kropotkin to instill the Jewish masses with revolutionary, combative spirit in the purchase of anarchist ideas.