Nikolai M. Karamazin, a young
Russian aristocrat, made a tour
of western Europe in 1789, and
described the life of the people
of that time. Karamzin's "Let-
ters of a Russian Traveler-
1789-1790—An Account of a
Young Russian Gentlemen's
Tour through Germany, Swit-
zerland, France and England,"
has just been published by
C o l u m b i a University Press
(2960 Broadway, N. Y. 27),
abridged, in a translation by
Florence Jonas.
It throws light on the posi-
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SS—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frid ay, S eptember 12, 1958
Be not afraid of sudden fear
He hath made every thing
beautiful in his time. — Eccl. . . . for the Lord shall be thy
confidence.—Prov. 3:25,26.
tion of the Jews of Frankfurt, 3:11.
Germany. As he views them,
the Frankfurt Jews, who were
such a proud and cultured com-
munity in the last century, up
to its destruction by the Nazis,
do not emerge as such a hand-
some lot.
Karamzin speaks of them as
"more intimately bound to-
gether than we triumphant
Christians," as possessing a
"more communal spirit." With
the traveler was a Dr. N. who
advised him not to buy any-
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thing from Jews because "they
cheat," and it aroused the
protest: "We are as honorable
as Christians, the Israelite said
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with some heat."
The Russian traveler reports
that the Jews of Frankfurt ex-
pressed pride in "the great
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man" Mendelssohn because he
"was a Jew, a Jew!" Then he
relates a protest by the Frank-
furt Jews against the staging
of "The Merchant of Venice,"
The Jews threatened not to
attend the theater. "The direc-
tor," Karamzin wrote, "not want-
ing to lose a part of his audi-
ence, replied that it would be
dropped from the repertoire of
the Frankfurt theater."
In view of what we know o
about Frankfurt Jewry, this is a
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persecution of Jews in the late
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But—that's what Karamzin's
18th century travel story re-
lates. The age of the ghetto was
transformed in the course of
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the following century, only to
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result in the total destruction
of Frankfurt Jewry by the
Nazis.
Russian Traveler's View of Frankfurt Jewry in 1789-90