Letter from Nathan Bijur to Theodore Roosevelt
Nathan Bijur tells President Roosevelt that he and Lee K. Frankel attended a meeting at the Metropolitan Temple whether the question of whether Russian Jews should be excluded from emigration to the United States was being debated. Bijur was excited and impressed that no one at the meeting was willing to argue in favor of exclusion. He believes that this confirms his theory that Jews need not apply to the government to specifically allow for the inclusion of persecuted Jews, because the average American is not in favor of keeping them out.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-12-05