A Newark paper's 'A Negro Hebrew In Town' item profiles Joseph Lescovitz, described as a coal-black Negro claiming Hebrew faith, who arrived in Newark from Egypt two months earlier hoping to find work copying unprinted Hebrew scriptures for synagogue use - work he says is actually all done in Wilna, Russia, leaving him stranded. Local Jews (named as Moses Simon and a Rabbi Lipman) were raising money to help him. He could not speak English; local Jews said his speech resembled ancient Hebrew understood by few of them. His father was said to be a rabbi in Nubia, where his wife and four children remained. A further independently scraped copy (node 4116) confirms the wording and adds a filename-derived clip date of 1898. A third independently scraped copy (node 4117), identified by its filename as the Passaic Daily News, confirms the wording and the 1898 dating.