First appearing in 1892, CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO gave an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle-class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population, providing a compelling ...
"A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle-class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population, ...
Children of the Ghetto is a mix of loosely connected sketches of Jewish life in the East End, based on the author's childhood memories of the Whitechapel slums. The novel opens with a Proem about the modern ghetto of London.
The folk who compose our pictures are children of the Ghetto; their faults are bred of its hovering miasma of persecution, their virtues straitened and intensified by the narrowness of its horizon.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
"Children of the Ghetto ... documents the lives of immigrant Jews who lived and worked in the Yiddish-speaking streets and densely packed alleys emptying into Petticoat Lane, the East End bazaar that was both marketplace and communal ...
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Children of the Ghetto
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.