Re: Music in Jewish brothels

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Actually, the host of this discussion was going to remind readers
of the Sholem Asch play, "God of Vengeance," revived several times
in recent years, and ask if anyone knew about the music that was
used for that, if any, and its source, if so.

ari

At 12:12 AM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>"Paul M. Gifford" wrote:
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>> Has anyone done any research into Jewish-run houses of ill-repute,
>> especially in places like London and Amsterdam, in the 17th and
>> 18th century? Or, for that matter, in Germany or Eastern Europe?
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>Hi Paul:
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>YIVO Annual of Social Science
>Vol. 1 (1946)
>Jewish and Non-Jewish Criminality in Poland 1932 - 1937
>by Liebman Hersch
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>"For white slave traffic (souteneurs and procurers)
>there were convicted among Jews in 1937, 25 per
>million inhabitants, a rate four times as high as that
>among non-Jews;  for rape the number of convicted
>among Jews was 4 per million, a rate about one-fourth
>that of non-Jews."
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>Regarding the first "statistic",  bear in mind that anti-Semitic
>Polish police and courts were generally not well-disposed
>towards Jews,  and therefore Jewish law-breakers would
>be targeted for arrest and convicted in greater proportion
>than their Christian counterparts.
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> A =shul= on the Lower East Side of NYC was
>once pointed out to me as being the former congregation
>of the local brothel keepers of some decades ago.
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>Thanks for initiating an interesting "thread".
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>I hope the List-Owner will not become too uncomfortable with this topic
>and attempt to shut down the discussion because of its sexual content
>--as he has done in the past.
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>=a git, gezint un gebensht yor, alemen=
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