Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life

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Edward Alfred Steiner. Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life

Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life

Table of Contents

Foreword

Against the Current

I. HOW I GOT MY NAME

II. THE PERIOD OF RACE UNCONSCIOUSNESS

III. THE DAWN OF RACE CONSCIOUSNESS

IV. THE NEW TEACHER

V. THE THREE WISE MEN

VI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN HUNGARY

VII. THE MILLER’S DAUGHTER

VIII. THE FALL OF THE GOOSE GIRL

IX. AN UNWILLING JEW

X. THE PRINCE COMES

XI. THE CHILD ON THE BATTLE-FIELD

XII. THE PENALTY OF SCEPTICISM

XIII. MY FIRST LIBRARY

XIV. THE CANDY-MAKER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

XV. THE AMERICANS

XVI. THE CUP OF ELIJAH

XVII. THE TRAGEDY OF RACE

XVIII. THE FIRST APOSTASY

XIX. A SECTARIAN CONTROVERSY

XX. THE HOUSE OF THE POOR

XXI. OUT OF THE OMNIBUS

XXII. A BACKWARD LOOK

XXIII. THE SYNAGOGUE

XXIV. THE CHURCH WITH THE CROSS

XXV. THE CHURCH WITH THE WEATHER-VANE

XXVI. TOLSTOY THE MAN

XXVII. AWAKENED JUDAISM

XXVIII. CONCLUSION

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Edward Alfred Steiner

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The driver of the wagon where I sat with the goose girl was not at all cordial when he discovered me among the jugs of water that were being carried back to the sick.

“How much are you going to pay me, you little Jew, for taking you home?” he demanded. The word Jew in the Slavic language is Schid, and it had a contemptuous, menacing sound. I protested that I was not a Schid and before I knew it, he took me by the back of the neck and threw me from the wagon; then he whipped his horses while I, limping and crying, started in pursuit, which I soon saw to be fruitless, as the procession moved rapidly away from me.

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