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CHAPTER IX 82-88

Severe restrictions on Jews--The Jews as traders--Their vigorous methods--They exploit the peasants of the countryside as wine-shopkeepers and moneylenders--The Jews as tenants of estates sublet at rack rents--The original proprietor cannot see that he has any share of responsibility for the grinding down of the peasants--An anti-Jewish riot in the Lipscani--A family of Paris Jews make a large fortune in a fashionable shop in a few years--A Jewish wedding which is a double one.