The Spirit of the Ghetto

About this eBook

Author

Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944

Title

The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York

Credits

Produced by Jana Srna, Melissa McDaniel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States

Subject

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41028

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41028

Release Date

October 11, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Spirit of the Ghetto
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.Chapter One The Old and the New — THE OLD MAN — THE BOY — THE "INTELLECTUALS"
6. 6.Chapter Two Prophets without Honor — SUBMERGED SCHOLARS — THE POOR RABBIS
7. 7.Chapter Three The Old and the New Woman — THE ORTHODOX JEWESS — THE MODERN TYPE — PLACE OF WOMAN IN GHETTO LITERATURE
8. 8.Chapter Four Four Poets — A WEDDING BARD — A CHAMPION OF RACE — A SINGER OF LABOR — A DREAMER OF BROTHERHOOD
9. 9.Chapter Five The Stage — THEATRES, ACTORS AND AUDIENCE — REALISM, THE SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO THEATRE — THE HISTORY OF THE YIDDISH STAGE
10. 10.Chapter Six The Newspapers — THE CONSERVATIVE JOURNALS — THE SOCIALIST PAPERS — THE ANARCHIST PAPERS — SOME PICTURESQUE CONTRIBUTORS
11. 11.Chapter Seven The Sketch-Writers — SOME REALISTS — A CULTIVATED LITERARY MAN — AMERICAN LIFE THROUGH RUSSIAN EYES — A SATIRIST OF TENEMENT SOCIETY
12. 12.Chapter Eight A Novelist
13. 13.Chapter Nine The Young Art and its Exponents
14. 14.Chapter Ten Odd Characters — AN OUT-OF-DATE STORY-WRITER — A CYNICAL INVENTOR — AN IMPASSIONED CRITIC — THE POET OF ZIONISM — AN INTELLECTUAL DEBAUCHEE
15. 15.FOOTNOTES

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