Category: History

” … six million downtrodden brethren.”

1903 – The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 18th, 1903, page 6

“PLEA FOR ZIONISM … In answer I would say: Does Dr. Silverman represent the 6,000,000 Jews in Russia, 300,000 in Roumania and the 1,000,000 in Galicia?”

1902 – Samuel W. Goldstein, New York Times, November 27, 1902

I got this started a few days ago and was sidetracked. I wanted this daily post to be an unearthing of long buried journalistic reporting on interesting historical factoids.

“While there are in Russia and Romania six millions of Jews who are being systematically degraded …”

Encyclopedia Britannica, 10th Edition, Vol. 25, 1902, page 482

Here was the Historical factoid from day 1

https://ironink.org/2013/03/historical-factoids/

I’m starting a series that will look at forgotten reporting in history. I will cut and paste one small factoid from history and over time we will see if a pattern develops. We won’t make any conclusions about what any pattern might or might not mean, leaving that up to each individual to conclude. History is full of odd coincidences and finding patterns is always a dicey business.

1900 – Stephen S. Wise, New York Times, June 11, 1900

“There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism.”

“General Richard Taylor, in one of the best Confederate memoirs,’Destruction and Reconstruction’, related what happened as he surrendered the last Confederate troops east of the Mississippi in 1865;

A German, wearing the uniform of a Yankee general and speaking in heavily accented English, lectured him that now that the war was over, Southerners would be taught ‘the true American principles.’ Taylor replied, sardonically, that he regretted that his grandfather, an officer in the Revolution, and his father, President of the United States, had not passed on to him true American principles. Yankeeism was triumphant.”