{"id":805,"date":"2025-03-01T18:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/?p=805"},"modified":"2025-03-02T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:25:37","slug":"in-the-pale-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/in-the-pale-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Pale (1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-797\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-100-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-797 ml-slider ms-theme-default-base has-dots-nav\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"In the Pale\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_797\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_797\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-800 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-03-01 18:37:54\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"slider-797 slide-800 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"IMG_7475\" style=\"margin-top: 7.96875%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-1024x861.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-768x646.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-1536x1291.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7475-2048x1722.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-801 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2025-03-01 18:37:54\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2041\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"slider-797 slide-801 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"IMG_7477\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 79.7265625%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-scaled.jpeg 2041w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-239x300.jpeg 239w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-816x1024.jpeg 816w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-768x963.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-1224x1536.jpeg 1224w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_7477-1632x2048.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2041px) 100vw, 2041px\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Title: In the Pale<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author: Henry Iliowizi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publisher: Henry T. Coates &amp; Co.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimated year of printing: 1900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First published in 1897 by the Jewish Publication Society of America, <em>In the Pale<\/em> is a collection of stories from the Russian Jewish population living in what was known as the Pale of Settlement.\u00a0 The Pale of Settlement was a western region of Russia that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which Jews were allowed reside, and were forbidden to live elsewhere.\u00a0 Life in the Pale was hard and economically bleak, but Jewish culture was still embraced and able to thrive amongst the population. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book summarizes itself nicely: \u201cThese tales of fact, folklore, and fiction may serve to open a window of the great dungeon wherein at least half of scattered Israel suffers, worships, and\u00a0 dreams.\u00a0 Living in a gloomy present, and ever picturing a golden future; languishing in wretchedness here, while never losing hope in a blessed hereafter, it is a race that has learned to weep and laugh at the same time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The enforcement of the Pale largely ended with the beginning of World War I in 1914, when large numbers of Jews in the Pale fled into the Russian interior in order to escape the invading German army.&nbsp; This was shortly followed by the February Revolution in 1917, which resulted in the end of the Russian Empire &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author, Henry Iliowizi (1850 &#8211; 1911) was himself born and raised in the Pale, before leaving and studying in Romania, Berlin, London, Paris, and then teaching in Morocco.&nbsp; He became a Rabbi, and immigrated to the United States in 1880, ministering in Virginia, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia before leaving for England in 1910.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first edition of this book from 1897 is common, but this 1900 printing is surprisingly scarce \u2014 WorldCat shows no copies in libraries, and no copies are offered for sale on AbeBooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/inpalestoriesleg00ilio\/\" title=\"\">Full text at archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/book\/lookupname?key=Iliowizi%2C%20Henry%2C%201850%2D1911\" title=\"\">UPenn Online Books Page: Henry Iliowizi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/desturmobed.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/henry-iliowizi.html\" title=\"\">Lesser Known Writers: Henry Iliowizi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pale_of_Settlement\" title=\"\">Wikipedia: Pale of Settlement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes: First published in 1897 by the Jewish Publication Society of America, In the Pale is a collection of stories from the Russian Jewish population living in what was known as the Pale of Settlement.\u00a0 The Pale of Settlement was a western region of Russia that existed from 1791 to 1917 in which Jews were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}