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Russky Yevrey

The Russian Jew

also: Русский Еврей, The Russian Jew

A real St. Petersburg weekly (founded 1879) addressing Jewish affairs in Russia, here subjected to the sketch's cruelest sight gag -- found literally "hanging tied up on a little rope in the corner" of the reading room -- which anticipates the piece's closing antisemitic punchline.

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