“We would suggest that the latter half of the book, dealing with the financial and economic aspects of the German Empire, would have been better qualified to serve the requirements of the general public had the writer been content to minimise his tables and lists of figures, and so far as possible, to avoid such very thorny problems as that of the comparative wisdom of the fiscal policies of Germany and Great Britain.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1600w.
Elzas, Barnett Abraham. Jews of South Carolina. *$6. Press of J. B. Lippincott co.
“The author’s aim has been to show the part taken by the Jew in commercial, professional, political, and social activities. The volume includes chapters on the beginnings of the Jewish settlements in the colony, their religious organization and religious dissensions, the part taken by the Jews in the wars and in affairs of government, the expansion of the Jews over the State, and short biographies of the most prominent members of the race.”—Dial.
“He has materially added to our knowledge of South Carolina Jewish history, and he might safely have permitted historical students to discover this fact for themselves, without attempting to emphasize it by belittling all his predecessors.” Max J. Kohler.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 940. Jl. ’06. 470w.
“In spite of minor defects, the work has a great value as an account of one of the influential elements in Southern society.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 590w.
“His book is of the same order as hundreds of local and genealogical histories written about ‘towns’ and old families of New England, but appeals perhaps to a larger public.”