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 <p> IN telling the story of how sixty-three million dollars
  were raised in America to relieve the war-stricken Jews of
  Europe and Palestine, I have not tried to write a history.
  For the reader this means both a loss and a gain. He will
  miss the logical narrative, the suppression of detail, and
  the concentration on a few important figures that the con
  vention of history-writing assures him. In history, as it
  is usually presented, the countless individuals who have
  played a part in bringing about a mass-action are, for the
  sake of simplicity and art, forgotten. A few leaders are
  allowed to enact in print the deeds of a whole population in
  reality, and bear off the honors for them. Events are
  simplified to conform to a neat time-schedule, only the more
  important appear, and they follow trimly one after another,
  so that the reader always knows just where he is, although
  seldom have the participants in the events or their con
  temporary observers had that good fortune. </p>
 <p>In these pages, on the contrary, an effort will be
  made to give something of the actual pressure and multi
  plicity of the events themselves. Sixty-three million dol
  lars were not raised by a few leaders, however important
  their services were, nor by a few big dramatic actions.
  Thousands of men and women contributed their energy,
  time, brains, and money to this common work. They must
  not be forgotten. The campaigns themselves were
  agonies of detail, overlapping, conflicting, sometimes dra
  matic and often doggedly commonplace. But even the
  least of these details had their place in reality and should
  have them in the record as far as possible. And only by
  allowing the events to repeat themselves somewhat in their
  original confusion may I hope to give the reader a faint
  echo of the rush of stirring times and noble deeds.</p>
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This Thing of Giving Henry H. Rosenfelt Transcription, Proofreading, and Encoding Duncan Rea Moore 2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu
Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100

This Thing of Giving 1924
Forword

IN telling the story of how sixty-three million dollars were raised in America to relieve the war-stricken Jews of Europe and Palestine, I have not tried to write a history. For the reader this means both a loss and a gain. He will miss the logical narrative, the suppression of detail, and the concentration on a few important figures that the con vention of history-writing assures him. In history, as it is usually presented, the countless individuals who have played a part in bringing about a mass-action are, for the sake of simplicity and art, forgotten. A few leaders are allowed to enact in print the deeds of a whole population in reality, and bear off the honors for them. Events are simplified to conform to a neat time-schedule, only the more important appear, and they follow trimly one after another, so that the reader always knows just where he is, although seldom have the participants in the events or their con temporary observers had that good fortune.

In these pages, on the contrary, an effort will be made to give something of the actual pressure and multi plicity of the events themselves. Sixty-three million dol lars were not raised by a few leaders, however important their services were, nor by a few big dramatic actions. Thousands of men and women contributed their energy, time, brains, and money to this common work. They must not be forgotten. The campaigns themselves were agonies of detail, overlapping, conflicting, sometimes dra matic and often doggedly commonplace. But even the least of these details had their place in reality and should have them in the record as far as possible. And only by allowing the events to repeat themselves somewhat in their original confusion may I hope to give the reader a faint echo of the rush of stirring times and noble deeds.

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This Thing of Giving Henry H. Rosenfelt Transcription, Proofreading, and Encoding Duncan Rea Moore 2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu
Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100

This Thing of Giving 1924 Forword

IN telling the story of how sixty-three million dollars were raised in America to relieve the war-stricken Jews of Europe and Palestine, I have not tried to write a history. For the reader this means both a loss and a gain. He will miss the logical narrative, the suppression of detail, and the concentration on a few important figures that the con vention of history-writing assures him. In history, as it is usually presented, the countless individuals who have played a part in bringing about a mass-action are, for the sake of simplicity and art, forgotten. A few leaders are allowed to enact in print the deeds of a whole population in reality, and bear off the honors for them. Events are simplified to conform to a neat time-schedule, only the more important appear, and they follow trimly one after another, so that the reader always knows just where he is, although seldom have the participants in the events or their con temporary observers had that good fortune.

In these pages, on the contrary, an effort will be made to give something of the actual pressure and multi plicity of the events themselves. Sixty-three million dol lars were not raised by a few leaders, however important their services were, nor by a few big dramatic actions. Thousands of men and women contributed their energy, time, brains, and money to this common work. They must not be forgotten. The campaigns themselves were agonies of detail, overlapping, conflicting, sometimes dra matic and often doggedly commonplace. But even the least of these details had their place in reality and should have them in the record as far as possible. And only by allowing the events to repeat themselves somewhat in their original confusion may I hope to give the reader a faint echo of the rush of stirring times and noble deeds.