This is The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter of New York 1976 Schocken * Jewish Studies Hardcover (English text) By Hutchins Hapgood.
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The Jewish community on new york lower east side is the subject of this book which was first published in 1902. it describes steets teeming with pushcart peddlers and ragpickers, sweat shop workers and Talmudic scholars, cafes bursting with intel lacteals and unionists, socialists and garment workers - a com munity whose inhabitants defeated omnipresent poverty with a rich intellectual life, a love of the theater, and literature.
Jacob Epstein's drawings reveal a rarely known facet of the great sculptor's art. It was Mr Hapgood who first appreciated the work of this young artist of the ghetto - "he tells the truth about the ghetto as he sees it, but into the dark reality of the external life he puts frequently a melancholy beauty of spirit".
The pro-ceeds from the sketches for THE SPIRIT OF THE GHETTO en-abled nineteen-year-old Jacob Epstein to sail for Europe, where he was to achieve international acclaim.
Number of Pages: 152
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