CONTENTS
Hutchins Hapgood
Chapter I
Page
The Old and the New
9
The Old Man
The Boy
The "Intellectuals"
Chapter II
Prophets without Honor
44
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
71
The Orthodox Jewess: Devotion and Customs
The Modern Type: Passionate Socialists—Confirmed Blue-Stockings
Place of Woman in Ghetto Literature
Chapter IV
Four Poets
90
A Wedding Bard
A Champion of Race
A Singer of Labor
A Dreamer of Brotherhood
Chapter V
The Stage
113
Theatres, Actors, and Audience
Realism, the Spirit of the Ghetto Theatre
The History of the Yiddish Stage
Chapter VI
The Newspapers
177
The Conservative Journals
The Socialist Papers
The Anarchist Papers
Some Picturesque Contributors
Chapter VII
The Sketch-Writers
199
Some Realists
A Cultivated Literary Man
American Life Through Russian Eyes
A Satirist of Tenement Society
Chapter VIII
A Novelist
230
Chapter IX
The Young Art and its Exponents
254
Chapter X
Odd Characters
272
An Out-of-date Story-Writer
A Cynical Inventor
An Impassioned Critic
The Poet of Zionism
An Intellectual Debauchee
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