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Biography of Jacob August Riis
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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 conditions. Jacob Riis was born May 3, 1849, in Ribe,...
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Biography of Jacob A(ugust) Riis
3,182 words, approx. 11 pages
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 began to take clear shape in America in the last...


Quotations
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Jacob Riis Quotes
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jacob Riis Information
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Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less...


News and Journals
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Scandinavian Review
Jacob Riis: Social Reformer
10/01/2006: 3,044 words, approx. 10 pages
The Danish-born journalist's campaign to clean up the slums of New York City owed as much to a brutally slain dog as to moral principles. EVEN THOSE WHO KNOW MORE ABOUT JACOB RIIS THAN the parks and housing developments named after him in...
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Studies in the Novel
The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum.(Review) (book review)
06/22/2001: 1,631 words, approx. 5 pages
GANDAL, KEITH. The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). 206 pp. $49.95. I first stumbled upon Keith Gandal's argument about slum ethics while looking for a good essay...
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AP News
Photographer documents Somali exile
11/23/2007: 766 words, approx. 3 pages
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 California."Stories of the Somali Diaspora" starts in refugee camps in Kenya and moves...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Louis Fried
9,719 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Fried examines Riis's interest in, and study of, eastern European Jews.
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Critical Essay by Jeffrey S. Gurock
8,505 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Gurock takes a close look at Riis's relationships with Jews.
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Critical Essay by Park Dixon Goist
6,139 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following excerpt, Goist compares and contrasts Riis's formative experiences with those of another social reformer, Jane Addams.
 


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