The Spirit of the Ghetto. STUDIES oF THE JEWISH QUARTER IN NEW YORK

Hapgood, Hutchins.

New York

1902

FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by (Sir) Jacob Epstein

The writer Hutchins Hapgood (1869-1944) was well known as a philosophical anarchist within the Bohemian environment of turn-of-the-century New York City. In the present work, he sympathetically reports on the character, lives and pursuits of East Side Jews. The book contains much first-hand information concerning rabbis, scholars, writers, poets, odd characters, institutions, newspapers and the theatre”