Source material used in this book has been translated from a number
of languages including Polish, Russian and Yiddish. Hence there are
variations in the spelling of words and this is particularly apparent
in the rendering of place names. The following variations in the
spelling of words and place names have been left unchanged:
“Bialystock”, “Bialostock”
“Cholm”, “Kholm”
“Kehillas”, “Kehillah”
“Kielce”, “Kieltse”
“Liublin”, “Lublin”
“Lomza”, “Lomzha”, “Lomsha”, “Lomscha”
“Plotsk”, “Plotzk”
“Poltava”, “Poltawa”
“Rostov”, “Rostof”
“Volhynia”, “Volynia”
Archaic usage, unusual/inconsistent hyphenation, other variations
that have been left unchanged:
“amid”, “amidst”, “among”, “amongst”, “anomolous”
“corn growing”, “corn-growing”
“court martial”, “court-martial”
“despatches”, “esthetic”, “feebleminded”
“ever growing”, “ever-growing”
“half naked”, “half-naked”
“inhabitated”, “inhabitating”
“manifestoes” (as the plural of “manifesto”)
“RUSSIAN-JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE”, “Russian Jewish Relief Committee”,
“Russian Jewish Committee”, “Russian-Jewish Refugees”,
“Russian Jewish soldiers”, “Russian Jewish Weekly”
“scare-crow”
“today”, “To-day”, “toward”, “towards”
A redundant column header in a table starting on page 107 and
continuing on to page 108 has been removed. The two pages over which
the table was spread no longer have a physical page break in this
transcribed text. Thus there is no need to repeat the column header,
which was at the top of the second (physical) page.
Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at
the end of the book.
The cover image is a restored version using elements from the original
cover and is placed in the public domain.