Mrs.
Tevkin's Russian sounded more Russian than her husband's. Emil,
Elsie, and Gracie did not speak Russian at all
Barring Mrs. Tevkin, each adult in the family worshiped at the
shrine of some "ism." Anna professed Israel Zangwill's modified
Zionism or Territorialism. This, however, was merely a platonic
interest with her. It took up little or none of her time. Her real
passion was Minority, a struggling little magazine of "modernistic
literature and thought." It was published by a group of radicals of
which she was a member. Elsie, on the other hand, who was a
socialist, was an ardent member of the Socialist party and of the
Socialist Press Club. Politically the two sisters were supposed to
be irreconcilable opponents, yet Anna often worked in the interests
of Elsie's party. Indeed, the more I knew them the clearer it
became to me that the older sister was under the influence of the
younger
The two girls and their brothers had many visitors--socialist and
anarchist writers, poets, critics, artists. These were of both sexes
and some of them were Gentiles.
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