The Five Frankforters

Excerpt from The Five Frankforters

In the Middle Ages as reckoned by common tale Of years, the Jews Of the lower and middle Rhine held their rights, properties and lives at such uncertain tenure that their refugees from Chris tian persecution have peopled the Slavic East Of the Continent, where their Offspring reside unto this very day. Nor is their seed unknown in America, where every roster Of notabilities in the vari ous trades and professions of the country abounds with names of Rhenish Jews.