Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob August Riis. Neighbors: Life Stories of the Other Half

PREFACE

THE ANSWER OF LUDLOW STREET

KIN

THE WARS OF THE RILEYS

LIFE’S BEST GIFT

DRIVEN FROM HOME

THE PROBLEM OF THE WIDOW SALVINI

PETER

KATE’S CHOICE

THE MOTHER’S HEAVEN

WHERE HE FOUND HIS NEIGHBOR

WHAT THE SNOWFLAKE TOLD

THE CITY’S HEART

CHIPS FROM THE MAELSTROM

HEARTSEASE

HIS CHRISTMAS GIFT

OUR ROOF GARDEN AMONG THE TENEMENTS

THE SNOW BABIES’ CHRISTMAS

AS TOLD BY THE RABBI

THE STRAND FROM ABOVE

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“You get the money, or out you go! I ain’t in the business for me health,” and the bang of the door and the angry clatter of the landlord’s boots on the stairs, as he went down, bore witness that he meant what he said.

Judah Kapelowitz and his wife sat and looked silently at the little dark room when the last note of his voice had died away in the hall. They knew it well enough—it was their last day of grace. They were two months behind with the rent, and where it was to come from neither of them knew. Six years of struggling in the Promised Land, and this was what it had brought them.

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Mr. Springer was the boss painter. He did not give Judah his wages. He had not earned them, he said, and showed him the door. The man pleaded hotly, despairingly. They were hungry, the little kids and his wife. Only fifty cents of the two dollars—fifty cents! The painter put him out, and when he would not go, kicked him.

“Look out for that Jew, John,” he said, putting up the shutters. “We shall have him setting off a bomb on us next. They turn Anarchist when they get desperate.”

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