Summary
Black Jewish traveller from 'Macomby, Egypt' near Cairo, reported in a South Bend Times item reprinted as 'A Negro Jew'; questioned by Rabbi Weinstein in Goshen, Indiana and found to be a genuine Jew; said to have served in the Greek army in the Greco-Turkish war. Probably the same itinerant man reported elsewhere under other newspaper spellings (Waltzkowitz, Valskabomann, Volskovitz, Lescovitz).

Events involving this person

c. 1900 (possible)
South Bend Times item (reprinted as 'A Negro Jew') reporting that a colored man claiming to be a Jew, named Samuel Wolskowicy, sought aid from the Jewish community of Goshen, Indiana after being refus
c. 1900 (possible)
A newspaper report (South Bend Times, reprinted in the Boonville Standard) says Goshen was 'excited over a colored Hebrew': a colored man calling himself Samuel Wolskowicy sought aid from Goshen's Jew