More than one former East Sider will get a twinge of remorse for the callous way in which he has forgotten his humble origin, if he or she reads “As I Know Them,” that charming book of reminiscences by Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, published by Doubleday, Doran. And in these reveries of Mrs. Kohut’s, in which she leads us from the East Side with all its pathos to colorful and significant chapters in the history of American Jewry as she has known it in the past forty years, one becomes aware that here is history, the history of the Jews in America, being written in a new and fascinating way, in a way that is bound to help the Jew and the non-Jew in understanding their mutual problems and in solving them, too.
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