"My Visit to Tolstoy": Five Discourses

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Five Discourses
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D.
Philadelphia 1911

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D.
Philadelphia, December 11th, 1910.
My visit to Russia and its purpose.
In the summer of 1894 I visited Russia for the purpose of proposing to the Czar a plan that might end or lessen the terrible persecution of the Jews in his realm. The plan intended was a removal of the persecuted Jews to unoccupied lands in the interior, there to be colonized on farms, and to be maintained, until self-supporting, by their correligionists of other parts of the world.
Refused admission by Russian government.
Learning that, because a Jew, I would not be admitted into Russia, I conferred with President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham, both of whom heartily endorsed my plan and resolved to intervene. The Russian Minister at Washington declaring his powerlessness to visé my passport, our Secretary of State cabled to the American Minister at St. Petersburg to obtain the desired permission from the foreign office, only to receive as reply the words Russian government deeply regrets its inability to accede to request in behalf of Reverend Jewish divine .
Determined to test my citizenship right.