Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Wandering Jews. [ARTICLE]

Wandering Jews.

From the time of Abraham to the present, the migratory instinct has been strong among Jews. Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt. Canaan once more, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Canaan a third time, and then the whole world, is the route of migration, the itinerary, as it were, of the Hebrew race. The Jews ate indeed the “tribe of the wandering foot.” The existence of Jews in onc-of the-way corners of the earth—the and Beai-

Israel and the Cochin Jews—is only accounted for by their wandering instincts. No doubt that instinct has been strengthened by persecution, b itnow when peace prevails, the Jew still retains his fondness for traveling.