Great Jewish Bloggers of the 1920s

Written in a snappy and quick style, stories like “The Free Vacation House” are both conversational and confessional. This one starts with a single mother of three, about to have a nervous breakdown, who’s offered a free vacation house from the local Social Betterment Society.It’s like a nightmare straight out of a Kveller blog post. The mother, accustomed to the constant frenzy of city life, is driven crazy by the rural tranquility and the quietness–as are her children. One is thrown out of a community playroom for being too rowdy. “Ain’t it a play-room?” asks the mother, disbelieving. “Don’t they let you play?”