The American Jewess: An American Jewess in Paris
by, Rebecca Honig Friedman, crossposted on Jewess
As a new crop of college graduates ponder their uncertain futures and decide whether to go directly to work (if they can find work in this uncertain economy) or bum around for a while in search of inspiration, I thought it would be fun to find out what passed for "backpacking through Europe" in the turn-of-the-20th-century world of The American Jewess.
"A Chicago Graduate in Europe" is probably the funniest piece we've looked at in this TAJ feature series. It's certainly one of the strangest. And the ads are great. Who knew they had electrolysis back then?
I've color-blocked the parts I find particularly weird and entertaining (and to make it prettier).
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as a Jewess who benefits from electrolysis, I appreciate the ad at the bottom even more than the article. plus ca change... I'm a little disturbed, however, at the thought of removing a wart or mole with electrolysis.