“The principal object of this new translation is to rescue from oblivion a valuable work for many years out of print.”
Bernheimer, Charles Seligman, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.
“All are written out of a wealth of precise information and, though deeply sympathetic, exhibit a perfectly sane and fair minded spirit.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + Dial. 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 340w.
“The book could still be rescued for the mass of American people who ought to read it, by careful editing, by the elimination of one third of its material, which is useless repetition, and by giving it that typographical dress in which the average reader expects a book of such popular value to appear.” Edward A. Steiner.
+ – Yale R. 15: 106. My. ’06. 440w.
Bernstein, Hermann. Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.
“In its pictures of facts and conditions the book is entirely convincing, but as a story is not signally impressive.”
+ – Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The story has a curious interest, as an interpretation, from the inside, of a theory of life utterly foreign to the average reader’s ideas.”