Contents

I Keidansky Decides to Leave the Social Problem Unsolved for the Present[1]
II He Defends the Holy Sabbath[7]
III Sometimes He is a Zionist[13]
IV Art for Tolstoy's Sake[23]
V "Three Stages of the Game"[33]
VI "The Badness of a Good Man"[41]
VII "The Goodness of a Bad Man"[53]
VIII "The Feminine Traits of Men"[65]
IX The Value of Ignorance[75]
X Days of Atonement[85]
XI Why the World is Growing Better[95]
XII Home, the Last Resort[105]
XIII A Jewish Jester[117]
XIV What Constitutes the Jew?[129]
XV The Tragedy of Humor[139]
XVI The Immorality of Principles[149]
XVII The Exile of the Earnest[157]
XVIII Why Social Reformers Should be Abolished[165]
XIX Buying a Book in Salem Street[173]
XX The Purpose of Immoral Plays[183]
XXI The Poet and the Problem[193]
XXII "My Vacation on the East Side"[199]
XXIII Our Rivals in Fiction[211]
XXIV On Enjoying One's Own Writings[219]

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