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Subsequent events are unclear in the historical record, but it is known that by 1886 he was back in Minsk coordinating a Jewish
Workers' Circle there. Hourwich then moved to Yaroslavl where in 1887 he passed the examination at the Demidov Law Institute and was admitted to the Russian bar. During this
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In 1890 Hourwich was forced to flee Russia to avoid arrest, leaving behind his first wife and their four children. On 30 September 1890, he sailed from the Port of
Goteborg, Sweden, and arrived at the Port of Hull, England, in the month of October; he next departed from the Port of Liverpool on a
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Following the annulment of the election and the defeat of the revolution
Hourwich returned to America, working once again for the Bureau of the Census in compiling a massive volume on mine statistics in association with the 1910 census.
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in 1877. Upon graduation he first tried to study medicine at the St. Petersburg
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Hourwich remained active in the underground revolutionary movement even as a lawyer and was instrumental in establishing radical study circles among Jewish workers.
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as a specialist on mining. Hourwich remained with the Census Bureau compiling statistical material relating to
American mines and quarries until 1906.
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286:(New World). Moreover, as was the case in his earlier run for the Russian Duma, Hourwich was unsuccessful in his effort to win a seat in Congress.
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on the economics of the
Russian village. This dissertation was published in book form in 1893 by Columbia College and in Russian translation in
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Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics with an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps being Taken and Required to Curb It
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only at the age of 35. Thereafter he became a prolific writer in that language, writing for a variety of publications under various
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Profiles of Eleven: Biographical Sketches of Eleven Men Who Guided the Destiny of an Immigrant Jewish Society.
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for about a year. He contributed a number of articles to academic journals of the day, including the
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Isaac Hourwich's papers, available to researchers on 13 reels of microfilm, reside at the
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Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United States.
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