Wednesday April 10, 1867. Boletín Oficial del Arzobispado Eclesiástico de Santiago, year VI, number 182, pages 153-55.
There are no statistics for the number of Israelites living in England. The estimate is 2 million.3
Sunday May 26, 1867. El Buscapié, periódico semanal de intereses generales, year II, number 56, page 1.
El Boletín del Clero de Lugo in an article entitled, "The Jews and the Pope," reflects on the letter sent by the two Hebrew Lehman brothers to the Israelites encouraging them to show their gratitude to the Roman Pontiff for the many benefits they have always received from the Vicar of Christ.
Wednesday July 12, 1876. El Diario de Santiago: de intereses materiales, noticias y anuncios, year V, number 1206, page 1.
The [Madrid] newspaper El Imparcial says:
"The Israelites of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany have sent to His Majesty the King arguments for restoring the civil rights and freedom of religion enjoyed by the Jews in Spain until 1492.1
"A ministerial newspaper reproduced those arguments but it deems that the petition will be refused for two reasons: (1) it is not incumbent upon the King alone but upon him and the Courts to judge this instance, and (2) Israelite worship is prohibited by Article 11 of the Constitution which officially endorses the Roman Catholic Church and the remittance of clergymen's salaries."
Wednesday August 14, 1878. El Diario de Santiago: de intereses materiales, noticias y anuncios, year VII, number 1802, page 2.
The thirteenth general assembly of the Israelite Alliance met the day before yesterday, Monday afternoon, with Mr. Crémieux the notable politician presiding. The session was more solemn than ever. In attendance were eminent Jews from Europe and America representing the prominent Israelite societies of Berlin, London, Vienna, Wroclaw, Brussels, Königsberg and New York plus delegates of the Hebrew press in the United States.
Mr. Kompert the famous novelist of the Ghetto voiced his delight that his race had finally witnessed the grant and sanction of its civil and political rights by an European Congress. Several speakers expressed the same sentiment. The session closed after drafting instructions to committees worldwide and agreeing to meet again in 1879.
The Jewish people march resolutely toward the new Jerusalem and it's not concealed from anybody that a great destiny awaits them. After all it's the only race that has kept itself young, strong and pure.
An anti-Jewish riot has just taken place in Fez, habitual residence of the Emperor of Morocco.
A Moor rode over some Israelite boys playing out on the street and a Jew ran out of his house to defend them. His act triggered a city-wide rumour that the Jews wanted to emancipate themselves.
All rabbis found on the street were assaulted and the Jewish quarter came perilously close to being set alight. Some Israelites were murdered and their corpses torched by the enraged Moors. More than thirty pregnant Jewish women aborted when they saw the brutal aggression against their husbands and children and when they realized the great peril run by the Israelite population.
Tuesday February 10, 1880. El Trabajo, year III, number 163, page 1.
Tangier. Stirred by the persecution and abuses which Jews have for some time been subjected to in the Moroccan empire, the majority of the representatives of European sovereigns have called on the Sultan to halt the harassment of the unfortunate Israelites. The U.S. consul made his protest in very vigorous and significant terms.
Tuesday March 9, 1880. Gaceta de Galicia: Diario de Santiago, year II, number 337, page 2.
The rabbis of Fez mailed a letter to the Anglo-Hebraic Association of London furnishing details about the assassination of a Jew named Abraham el Aloof and about the campaign launched against the Israelites of Morocco, to whom Muslim authorities deny all justice.
Thus the days have returned when Jews must cross Muslim neighbourhoods barefoot even if there are no mosques or holy sites in the area, and Jews must not cover their head. One did so on a rainy day and was seriously beaten. The adules (notaries public) declined to attest the pitiful state he was left in. The cali (judge) also refused adamantly, noting that "Jews, Christians and slaves have no blood."
It is hard to believe that the European diplomatic corps in Tangier will remain indifferent much longer to the cruel persecution endured by the unhappy members of the Hebrew community to the dishonor and scandal of our epoch.
Monday June 20, 1881. Gaceta de Galicia: Diario de Santiago, year III, number 705, page 2.
The following note is reprinted from the [Madrid] newspaper El Liberal.
The Minister of State received the day before yesterday a telegram from the Count of Rascón, Spain's representative in Constantinople, informing the minister that a Hebrew from Russia had come to the government of the Sultan pleading protection for Hebrew Slavs. This Israelite spoke on behalf of 60,000 natives of Southern Russia counties who were abused, mistreated and ousted by subjects of the Czar.
The Israelites esteemed that their lives were in peril and so they abandoned their homes in great numbers and sought the protection of other European nations.
This huge mass of Israelites, rejected and persecuted by the conservative Germans and having passage through Serbia denied, wishes to go to Austria if it can not stay in Turkey or head to the free countries of North America as a last resort.
This Israelite spokesman subsequently came to the Count of Rascón and both had a long conversation. He speaks antiquated and flawed Spanish like almost every one of his sixty thousand companions does.
The Minister of State informed the king yesterday about the matter and the king requested that a telegram be sent to Constantinople stating that he and his government would regard the return of those migrant Israelites to their old homeland with pleasure.
"It is necessary to mend in part the blunders of our ancestors," said the king, "and this was one of their biggest."
Monday April 24, 1882. Gaceta de Galicia: Diario de Santiago, year IV, number 950, page 2.
Berlin, 20. Dispatches from the Russian frontier, citing letters as their source, furnish "horrifying" details about attacks on Jews.
In Balta [Ukraine] the people wounded seven hundred Israelites, forty of whom are in "very serious" condition.
Women were the object of the "most repugnant" assaults.
Only sixteen out of the hundreds of houses owned by Jews were left standing.
The rest were looted and set ablaze.
Over twenty thousand Hebrews were reduced to destitution.
Funds from Odessa have arrived to help these unfortunate ones.
The losses amount to three million rubles. Some two hundred individuals were arrested, accused of inciting the riots.
Berlin, 21. Riots against Jews have reocurred in Letitchev [Ukraine] where some houses belonging to Israelites were looted.
Calm has returned to Balta after the great atrocities committed there.
In Karpovitch [Lithuania] the rabble despoiled every tavern owned by Jews. The presence of troops was required to forestall widespread plunder.
The Hebrews are very vulnerable in rural areas due to the total absence of police.
Peasants show great animosity toward Jews. Because of official Russian censorship the newspapers play down the extent of the riots that took place in various localities, but dispatches and letters received here concur that the riots are extremely serious.
Sunday May 28, 1882. El Correo Gallego, year V, number 1118, page 2.
In "Fowduo" (?) a fierce blaze razed 105 Israelite homes worth more than half a million rubles. The houses were insured. Many Jews were victims of horrendous events from Vilnius [Lithuania] to Minsk [Belarus]. Even babies were wrested from their mother's arms and burned alive in her presence.