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Persia’s Plight; Lithuania’s Light

Summarizing Cindy Scarr in Mishpacha · Published Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY In 1871, a severe famine struck Persia, disproportionately affecting its Jewish population due to governmental neglect. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish Solidarity  Equal Rights  Jewish Chronicle  Torah Leadership  Lithuanian Jews  Hamagid  Persian Famine  Jewish Aid  Rav Shlomo Zalman Sender  Shah Of Persia 

Places mentioned

Isfahan, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Tehran, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Kashan, Isfahan, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Shiraz, Fars, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Hamadan, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
Bushehr, Iran
"Scattered across the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Kashan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Bushehr, Persian Jews were already living on the margins"
London, United Kingdom
"Recognizing the unfolding catastrophe, the Jewish Chronicle in London first sounded the alarm in the summer of 1871"
Moscow, Russian Federation
"The campaign was meticulously organized, with emissaries dispatched to towns large and small from Moscow to Mezhibuzh and Kovno to Krynik."
Mezhibuzh, Khmelnychchyna, Ukraine
"The campaign was meticulously organized, with emissaries dispatched to towns large and small from Moscow to Mezhibuzh and Kovno to Krynik."
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
"The campaign was meticulously organized, with emissaries dispatched to towns large and small from Moscow to Mezhibuzh and Kovno to Krynik."
Kobryn, Brest, Belarus
"a young, newlywed yeshivah scholar living in the town of Kobryn."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Settling in Yerushalayim, he spent his final years in the holy city, a quiet figure in a land that had once been home to the greatest of sages."

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