[Cz-L] Gusta Farer - From Galicia via Czernowitz to Constantinople

Czernowitzers...

Join me please for a visit to the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum and its small, but very interesting exhibition "The Yellow Ticket. Traffic in Grils 1860-1930"

http://hauster.blogspot.nl/2012/10/gusta-farer-from-galicia-via-czernowitz.html

and let's meet Gusta Farer, born 1872 in Probuzna, Galicia, who was running two "whorehouses" in the Turkish cities of Brussa and Constantinople at the beginning of the 20th century. She also owned a building in the Synagogengasse 47 in Czernowitz.

The "Yellow Ticket", a colloquial term, was the pass carried by prostitutes in tsarist Russia. Those, who applied for it, had to hand over their personal documents to the police. Reexchange of these documents was seldom possible. Many countries had special permits for prostitutes, but the "Yellow Ticket" had a particular relevance. According to contemporary reports, thousands of Jewish women in Russia were willing to take this permit and the frequent required medical examinations without ever becoming a prostitute. It was often their only legal chance of escaping the pale of Jewish settlements and moving to the large cities such as Moscow or St. Petersburg.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

                                               
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