Max White was an odd outsider to late 19th Century American
history-with an immigrant's, in particular a Jewish immigrant's,
perspective on the economic and social world of his time. As a
young man he had some fascinating adventures-among them: in Poland,
where he was born and then in London in the 1850s, and in Tampa
during the war with the Seminoles, and in Nashville during the
American Civil War. He relates these with a story-teller's zest and
a sense of humor. He learned his English late; his voice is at once
Yiddish in its inflection and high-flown Victorian in its
aspiration. He is a genuine picaresque. As an old man in America he
took a religious turn and longed for the Poland of his childhood
and the coming heaven where he believed he would be reunited with
the sainted souls he left behind in Kalisz. As editor I've tried to
clean up his shaky grasp of English grammar and punctuation but
have tried to stay try true his engaging voice. I provide an
editor's introduction and some images: the frontispiece he designed
for his memoir; a page of the handwritten manuscript; and an
undated photograph of him at about age fifty. I also provide a
postscript that adds some interesting historical and family
context.
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