Everyday antisemitism in Poland 150 years ago

Sometimes, the reporting of antisemitism in old Jewish media is laced with the blackest of humor. 

In this example, reports of Polish police forcibly cutting off the payos (sidelocks) or ripping off the headcoverings of women is sarcastically reported as a service performed for free.

From The Hebrew Leader, a New York newspaper, June 23, 1871:

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