The Little Review, March 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

book could not be. It is the personality of Rahel Varnhagen that

matters, and the influence of that personality on the men of her day.

Rahel is distinctive as a challenger of the worn-out social and ethical baggage that somehow, in all its shabbiness, has been reverently, with ritual and with authority, given into our keeping by those who were as oppressed by it as we in turn ...