"Steiner" Quotes from Famous Books
... the largest group are the latest comers, the Russian Jews. "Ultra orthodox," says Edward A. Steiner, "yet ultra radical; chained to the past, and yet utterly severed from it; with religion permeating every act of life, or going to the other extreme and having 'none of it'; traders by instinct, and yet among the hardest manual laborers of our great cities. A complex mass in which great ... — Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth |