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2 for his great accomplishment; and I may add, Bregstone lead us into the heretofore unknown chambers of Jewish life in Chicago. The seeds of the Jewish Chicago have blossomed forth, and Bregstone made the firs beginning of (to gather) the harvest, he gathered the scattered knowledge of its past, the Echoes of the first sounds and together with his own experience and research he succeeded to bring his offering of its first fruit: his work "Chicago and Its Jews." The book is composed of more than four hundred pages of reading matter, written in a splendid style. There are pages that charm the reader; pages with poetic movement, lyrical sweetness and unclear immensely fine diction. Often intertwined of motives and etudes? and yet, one feels how the yesterday, and the today, the immediate past and the presence cross each other. They interweave with each other and meter? the Jewish life of Chicago in a harmonious com- pleteness.

The book is divided in four parts and each part in sepa-

rate chapters and every chapter is complete in itself. Every- where the author endeavors to reveal the spiritual to the surface. Particularly can this be observed when he discusses persons who though? occupy a prominent (part) position for the contributions they made to philanthropy, yet he treats them with little love because they lack culture, or because of their tendencies towards assimilation.