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that were met in the different lines of philanthropic activity.

As the first attempt in this direction the work will render a great
service in clarifying the indefinite views in vogue at present among
Jewish Social workers.

Contents

INTRODUCTION--The Extent and Scope of Jewish Philanthropy. Dependency Among
Jews. Charity Among Jews. National Organizations. Methods of Fund Raising
for Jewish Philanthropic Agencies. Transients. The Immigration Problem.
Distribution. The Back to the Soil Movement. Resident-Dependents.
Dependent Women and Children. Insufficiency of Income. Standards of
Relief. Education and Social Organizations. The Education of Immigrants.
Jewish Settlements and Neighborhood Work. Organization and Administration.
Volunteer Service. Administration. The Federation and the Synagogue.
Bibliography. Index.

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*A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy*

BY ISAAC HUSIK

Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania

_Cloth, octavo, l + 452 pages, $3.00_

The first complete history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic philosophy for
both the student and the general reader which has as yet been written in
any modern tongue.

The story is told simply and interestingly. Dr. Husik is gifted with the
faculty of clear insight and he has succeeded in grasping and in
exhibiting in a very readable manner the essential nature of the various
problems treated and the gist of the solutions offered by the different
Jewish philosophers discussed. The author has not attempted to read into
the mediaeval thinkers modern ideas which were foreign to them. He has
endeavored to interpret their ideas from their own point of view as
determined by their history and environment, and the literary sources,
religious and philosophical, under the influence of which they came. It is
an objective and not too critical exposition of Jewish rationalistic
thought in the middle ages.

In the words of an eminent reviewer, "To have compressed a comprehensive
discussion of five centuries of earnest and productive thought upon the
greatest of themes into a book of less than four hundred and fifty pages
is an achievement upon which any author may be congratulated. To have done
the work so well and in particular to have expressed profound reflections
upon abstruse problems in a style so limpid, so fl