German, Russian, and British railroads are built in Persia and Iraq as land routes to the Persian Gulf and access to India. British, German, and Russian Railway Projects Source: McLean, David, Britain and Her Buffer State. London Royal Historical Society: 1979, p. 120
The British controlled Anglo-Persian Oil Company discovers oil at Masjid-i-Sulaiman in the mountains of north-western Persia. Source: Wiki
Captain Alfred Dreyfus is formally reinstated as a major in the French army and made a Knight of the Légion d’Honneur
A “letter signed by Lord Rothschild, Samuel Montagu, David Alexander and Claude Montefiore, all members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews who organized the Russo-Jewish committee in London to assist the victims of the pogroms in Russia.” Source: A Brief Encounter with Archives by Krysia Fisher, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 2005, p. […]
“Stop Your Cruel Oppression of the Jews” (e.g. In Russia) Pogroms “This cartoon illustrates the traditional thesis that the Jewish migration from Pale of Settlement in Russia was caused by the pogroms. It shows a Jewish town, on that right, that was hit by a pogrom, and a stream of Jewish refugees fleeing it on […]
Negib Azouri, prominent Arab intellectual: “Two important phenomena, of the same nature but opposed, which have still not drawn anyone’s attention, are emerging at this moment in Asiatic Turkey. They are awakening of the Arab nation, and the latent effort of the Jews to reconstitute on a very large scale the ancient kingdom of Israel. […]
Theodor Herzl died at age 44 in Edlach, Austria-Hungary
Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss) visited Kihnev after the massacre Houdini visited Kishnev after the massacre, ‘horrified.’ Nothing like it, he declared, could happen in any country but Russia. In a column for the Dramatic Mirror two years later, he offered fellow entertainers bitter advice on managing to perform in Moscow despite the ban on Jews: […]
June 11, 1903 Rev. Dr. Zadok Kahn, Grand Rabbi of France, Rue St., George, Paris Dear Doctor: An idea is prevailing here that we are sending too much money to Kishnev and not enough to other points where there was also great suffering, concerning which not so much was said in the newspapers. If […]
“The Kishnev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishnev, which was back then part of the Bessarabia province of imperial Russia (currently Chisinau is the capital of independent Moldova). It started on April 6 and lasted until April 7, 1903. The riot started after a Christian Russian boy, Michael Ribalenko, had been […]