The Spirit of the Ghetto [Paperback]

Hutchins Hapgood (Author), Moses Rischin (Editor), Jacob Epstein (Illustrator)

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Paperback: 356 pages
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; New edition edition (Jan 1 1967)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674832663
ISBN-13: 978-0674832664
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 476 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,901,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars No Spirit in Hapgood's ghetto, Jun 1 2009

By M. Newman - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: The Spirit of the Ghetto (Paperback)

This book came highly recommended as a window into the lives of the Jewish immigrants of the Lower East Side and I was quite eager to read it. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Although Mr. Hapgood was accurate in the portrayal of his subjects, his portraits appeared dry and obviously written by a non-Jewish outsider. His "Spirit of the Ghetto" was actually pretty spiritless and came off as an anthropological study. For a more interesting and realistic picture of these dynamic people, I suggest Irving Howe's "World of Our Fathers" or the fiction of Abraham Cahan. The beautiful drawings of Jacob Epstein, however, compensate for the shortcomings of Hapgood's stilted prose and make this book a worthwhile purchase.

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