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JEWISH LABOURERS.
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time of gathering He will not forget, have united in
more than one place to teach them how to work, and to
supply them with the means of labour, so as to enable
them, as Jews, to earn their daily bread by the honest
industry of their own hands. I have already mentioned
—far more cursorily than it deserved — Miss Cooper's
work-school for Jewesses *; I have now to tell of
another plan.
Eight years ago, that is in June, 1852, a piece of
ground to the north-west of Jerusalem was hired by
some Christian residents in the City; olives, mulberries,
and vines were planted as far as the small funds then
in hand allowed, and Jews were for many weeks each
summer employed in the care of it. For four years this
continued, the Jewish labourers varying from twenty to
two hundred in number, not indeed according to the
applications made, which were very numerous, but
according to the amount of work which the varying
funds enabled the managers to give. By 1857, the sale
of the stones taken off the ground, and contributions
remitted from England and India, cleared off the pur-
chase of the land; a deed of trust was executed, and
trustees both in Jerusalem and England were nomi-
nated ; and though constant applications for work were
necessarily refused, and such numbers were turned
away, for whom it was impossible to find wages, that the
good effected could not be very extensive, yet the
experiment had at least drawn out the most satisfactory
proofs, against the common cry, that Jews are willing to
work even at an occupation to which they are wholly
* There is also a society called the " Sarah Society," formed of ladies■;
for visiting the Jews at their own miserable homes, taking them food,
clothing, and medicine: they work, as Miss Cooper did, unobtrusively
and quietly, saying little, but effecting much.
271
time of gathering He will not forget, have united in
more than one place to teach them how to work, and to
supply them with the means of labour, so as to enable
them, as Jews, to earn their daily bread by the honest
industry of their own hands. I have already mentioned
—far more cursorily than it deserved — Miss Cooper's
work-school for Jewesses *; I have now to tell of
another plan.
Eight years ago, that is in June, 1852, a piece of
ground to the north-west of Jerusalem was hired by
some Christian residents in the City; olives, mulberries,
and vines were planted as far as the small funds then
in hand allowed, and Jews were for many weeks each
summer employed in the care of it. For four years this
continued, the Jewish labourers varying from twenty to
two hundred in number, not indeed according to the
applications made, which were very numerous, but
according to the amount of work which the varying
funds enabled the managers to give. By 1857, the sale
of the stones taken off the ground, and contributions
remitted from England and India, cleared off the pur-
chase of the land; a deed of trust was executed, and
trustees both in Jerusalem and England were nomi-
nated ; and though constant applications for work were
necessarily refused, and such numbers were turned
away, for whom it was impossible to find wages, that the
good effected could not be very extensive, yet the
experiment had at least drawn out the most satisfactory
proofs, against the common cry, that Jews are willing to
work even at an occupation to which they are wholly
* There is also a society called the " Sarah Society," formed of ladies■;
for visiting the Jews at their own miserable homes, taking them food,
clothing, and medicine: they work, as Miss Cooper did, unobtrusively
and quietly, saying little, but effecting much.