Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1890 — The Jews Still Wander. [ARTICLE]

The Jews Still Wander.

It is remarkable that Emin Pasha should be a Jew bj birth, and one of his fescuers —Vita Hassen —a Jew bj profession. But thie presenoe of these •Tews in Equatorial Afriea does not stand alone. From the time of Abraham downward the migratory instinct hhs been dominant in the race. Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt, Canaan once more, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Canaan a third time; and then the world, at large—such are the successive stages of Israel's national migrations. The Jews, indeed, have ever been the “tribe of the wandering foot” In an ago when movement from one country to another was a rare and hazardous proceeding—in the twelfth century; to wit—Benjamin of Tudela and Petachia of Ratisbon traveled through a great part of Europe, Asia and Africa, and were thereby able to mate considerable additions to the world's kn.owledge. The second Benjamin and Halevy, who explored the Felashas, may also be mentioned. The existence of Jews in out-of-the-way eorners oJ the globe, the Felashas and Beni-Isracl and tire Cochin Jews, has only been made possible by the migratory tendency of the race. The four young men who kept last Yom Kippur in so queer, yet touching, a fashion in the wilds of South Africa, are among the latest illustrations of the tendency. No doubt the wandering instinct has been strengthened by persecutions, but now that peace and quietness are his in S renter measure, the Jew still retains is predilection for travel.— Chronicle.