Children of the Ghetto (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study of a Peculiar People

By Israel Zangwill

Beneath the gritty surface of industrial England, an ancient and persecuted people continue to love and dream. Subtitled “Being Pictures of a Peculiar People,” this influential 1892 early work of Anglo-Jewish fiction, set in London’s East End, brought its author fame—and comparisons to Dickens and Twain—for his humanity and humor.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Aug 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411451322

Israel Zangwill

Zangwill, the son of Latvian and Polish immigrants, was born in London’s East End and showed literary promise as early as eighteen. A teacher for some years after he graduated from London University, he eventually left the profession to write full-time, publishing hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories and plays produced in London and New York. His work concentrated on political, social and Jewish issues but The Big Bow Mystery was his only venture into detective fiction.

Reviews for Children of the Ghetto (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

[waynex_7 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A great writer, hailed at the time as a Jewish Dickens. Writes about the Jewish Ghetto in Londons East end, tales of Ashkanazi immigration and Sephardic/Ashkanazi tensions and snobbery.