“The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w. |
“What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w. |
“Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak with authority.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w. |
“An elaborate, dispassionate study.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w. |
“It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w. |