Jacob August Riis (1849-1914), Danish-born American journalist and slum reformer, created new standards in civic responsibility regarding the poor and homeless in his reporting of New York City slum c...
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Jacob Riis was not one of America's bestknown newspapermen, but unlike most of them he claims a relatively prominent place in the country's social history. He was a leader in the reform movement that ...
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In the following essay, which originally appeared in the New York Sun, Riis comments on some of his photographs.
With their way illuminated by spasmodic flashes, as bright and sharp and brief as th...
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In the following essay, Dunton presents a review of Riis's autobiography.
Jacob Riis, reporter, philanthropist, reformer, author of How the Other Half Lives, needs no introduction to the nat...
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Critical Essay by Mary Mills West
SOURCE; A review of The Battle with the Slum, in The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 11, March, 1903, pp. 334-35.
In the following essay, West reviews The Batt...
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In the following essay, a reviewer for The Nation offers a critique of The Battle with the Slum.
This book [The Battle with the Slum] would have attracted more attention than it has, but for the fa...
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In the following essay, Gullason identifies writers—among them Riis—who influenced Stephen Crane's novel Maggie.
For over a half-century, Stephen Crane's Maggie (1893) h...
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In the following essay, the editor's introduction of How the Other Half Lives, Warner discusses Riis's classic work.
This is one of the great books of American journalism. Published i...
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In the following excerpt, Goist compares and contrasts Riis's formative experiences with those of another social reformer, Jane Addams.
The emphasis of the urban novels written by Hamlin Gar...
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In the following essay, Fried examines Riis's interest in, and study of, eastern European Jews.
There have been few figures in American immigrant history who more tirelessly expounded upon t...
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In the following essay, Gurock takes a close look at Riis's relationships with Jews.
I. Jacob Riis Attacked and Defended
A. The Lucas-Riis Letters
On August 14, 1903, the American Hebrew ...
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A photographic exhibit captures one of the largest mass movements of people in recent history in images ranging from women carrying sacks of grain in Africa to men pushing shopping carts in Califor...
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Critical Essay by Jacob Riis
Photographer documents Somali exile
