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Upton Sinclair, guileless muckraker

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 20060621
Author:ELLIOT JAGER

ELLIOT JAGER
Jerusalem Post
06-21-2006
Headline: Upton Sinclair, guileless muckraker
Byline: ELLIOT JAGER
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 13

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 -- After a day of lessons at a nearby public school, Mr. Israel (I never learned his given name) would come to our yeshiva on New York's Lower East Side to teach English to a somnolent 10th grade.

He wore an oversize black yarmulke - provided by his employers - over a receding hairline. His bohemian credentials were conveyed by his longish black hair, goatee and ubiquitous turtleneck worn under his shirt.

I recall looking ...

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