QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER V

Aim: To Consider the Desirability of the Slavs as Immigrants.

I. The Slavic People as a Whole.

1. What nationalities are generally included under the term Slavs? Are they numerous in population? Are they strictly of one race?

2. What grounds are there to justify popular prejudice against them? Or to show it to be ill founded?

3. When did they begin to come in large numbers?

4. Where have they largely settled, and with what results?

II. Racial Divisions of the Slavic Immigrants.

5. What can you tell about the Bohemians, as to their religious history, political sufferings, and coming to America? What are their conditions here? Their accessibility? Their location?

6. Tell about the Poles in the same way.

7. Tell about the Slovaks in the same way.

8. Tell about the Magyars in the same way.

9. Who and what are the Lithuanians?

10. Who and what are the Ruthenians?

III. Slavic Elements of Strength and American Outlook.

11. Mention some encouraging features with reference to the above-named and other Slavs.

12. * If you had been born a Slav in Europe, would you be likely to prefer America to Europe? Protestantism to Roman Catholicism? The country or the city?

IV. Social, Moral, and Religious Aspects of the Jewish and Slavic Population.

13. How many Jews are there in New York City?

14. What keeps the new arrivals in the larger cities?

15. Are they religious, quick to learn, temperate?

16. Mention some form of Christian work for Slavs or Jews about which you know.

References for Advanced Study.—Chapter V

I. Further Study as to Race Origin and Inter-relationship of the Slavs.

Warne: The Slav Invasion, III.
McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, IV.

II. National Conditions in Europe which the Slavs Seek to Escape.

Hall: Immigration, 60-65.

III. Social and Moral Effects Produced by the Slav Invasion of the Anthracite Regions.

Warne: The Slav Invasion, IV, VII.

IV. Factors in Slavic History and Conditions Favoring and Hindering the Access of the Gospel.

McLanahan: Our People of Foreign Speech, 34-58.
Charities and Commons, issues 1905-06.

V. Conditions Among Russian Jews.

Statements of Jewish authors as to conditions
among Russian Jews in their native lands and in
America.
Bernheimer: The Russian Jew in the United
States, I (B), IV (A), VI (A).