“Comprehensive and readable presentation of the subject of industrial housing.”
N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:55 N 17 ’20 150w
“The book is a store of invaluable information.”
+ − Survey 45:258 N 13 ’20 1000w
KOBRIN, LEON. Lithuanian village; auth. tr. from the Yiddish by I: Goldberg. *$1.75 Brentano’s
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“In a series of sharp vignettes the book presents to us an environment almost extinct today—the environment of a drab little village in the pale. In restrained and simple language a restrained and simple folk is depicted dragging its weary body and soul through the whole cycle of the monotonous year. You read how those Jews half strangle each other in their efforts to earn a kopeck or two; you hear those bitter wives curse at their stalls, and see those stunted husbands pore over their holy books; you feel the grimy superstition that clogs the daily life of those villagers, know the smallness of their horizon and the narrowness of their vision—and you love them nevertheless. And somehow you are impressed that the hegira of their offspring to the land where ‘Jews can be policemen,’ was a far from woeful event in the history of the soul of the new world.”—New Repub
+ Booklist 17:34 O ’20