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Excerpt from Common-School Teaching: A Lecture Delivered Before the Teachers Association of the City of Brooklyn, September 28, 1877 The teacher personally has felt the benefit of this change. His character and social position have been elevated. No longer made the butt of ridicule and the object of caricature, he is regarded by enlightened persons as the member of an honorable and useful profession - a profession requiring at once special training and peculiar talent. The horn-book and the ferala have ceased to be considered his only necessary implements, both mental and physical; nor is the bankrupt tradesman, or the penniless and spendthrift gentle man, deemed fit to descend to his lowly ...
Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.