Note

Introductory

Contents

I Keidansky Decides to Leave the Social Problem Unsolved for the Present

II He Defends the Holy Sabbath

III Sometimes He is a Zionist

IV Art for Tolstoy's Sake

V "Three Stages of the Game"

VI "The Badness of a Good Man"

VII "The Goodness of a Bad Man"

VIII "The Feminine Traits of Men"

IX The Value of Ignorance

X Days of Atonement

XI Why the World Is Growing Better

XII Home, the Last Resort

XIII A Jewish Jester

XIV What Constitutes the Jew?

XV The Tragedy of Humor

XVI The Immorality of Principles

XVII The Exile of the Earnest

XVIII Why Social Reformers Should Be Abolished

XIX Buying a Book in Salem Street

XX The Purpose of Immoral Plays

XXI The Poet and the Problem

XXII "My Vacation on the East Side"

XXIII Our Rivals in Fiction

XXIV On Enjoying One's Own Writings

DISCOURSES OF KEIDANSKY

DISCOURSES OF
KEIDANSKY

By Bernard G. Richards

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Copyright 1903
by Scott-Thaw Co.
(Incorporated)

First Edition Published
March 1903

The Heintzemann Press Boston