Plain Folk: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans

Through use of the terms Plain, Neglected and Undistinguished in their titles, Hine’s ‘Russian Jewess’ symbolizes the quotidian in both Katzman & Tuttle’s and Rosen’s books.

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