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London : J.H. Dent & Sons, 1926.
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A fascinating look into the world of the late-19th century Jewish immigrant community in Britain.
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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.
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Reprinted edition (1926) of first edition (1914)/
Donated by Adele Rosalky from the Estate of Earle Hoffman, October 2020
Copy at RB 943.84 ZAN
In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. 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, providing a compelling analysis of a generation caught between the ghetto and modern British life.
Donated by Adele Rosalky from the Estate of Earle Hoffman, October 2020
Copy at RB 943.84 ZAN
In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. 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, providing a compelling analysis of a generation caught between the ghetto and modern British life.