The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes

CONTENTS
Chapter I
The Old and the New
The Old Man
The Boy
The "Intellectuals"
Chapter II
Prophets without Honor
Submerged Scholars: A Man of God—A Bitter Prophet—A Calm Student
The Poor Rabbis: Their Grievances—The "Genuine" Article—A Down-Town Specimen—The Neglected Type
Chapter III
The Old and New Woman
The Orthodox Jewess: Devotion and Customs
The Modern Type: Passionate Socialists—Confirmed Blue-Stockings
Place of Woman in Ghetto Literature
Chapter IV
Four Poets
A Wedding Bard
A Champion of Race
A Singer of Labor
A Dreamer of Brotherhood
Chapter V
The Stage
Theatres, Actors, and Audience
Realism, the Spirit of the Ghetto Theatre
The History of the Yiddish Stage 8
Chapter VI
The Newspapers
The Conservative Journals
The Socialist Papers
The Anarchist Papers
Some Picturesque Contributors
Chapter VII
The Sketch-Writers
Some Realists
A Cultivated Literary Man
American Life Through Russian Eyes
A Satirist of Tenement Society
Chapter VIII
A Novelist
Chapter IX
The Young Art and its Exponents
Chapter X
Odd Characters
An Out-of-date Story-Writer
A Cynical Inventor
An Impassioned Critic
The Poet of Zionism
An Intellectual Debauchee