Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The Jewish East End of London in the 1890s - the sweatshops, the synagogues, the arranged marriages and the children pulling away from all of it. Zangwill was commissioned to write it by an American Jewish publishing society and produced one of the first serious novels of immigrant life in English. This edition carries fifty-seven plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by William Logsdail, Théophile Steinlen and Beatrice Whistler, dating from 1748 to 1929.
The Jewish East End of London in the 1890s - the sweatshops, the synagogues, the arranged marriages and the children pulling away from all of it. Zangwill was commissioned to write it by an American Jewish publishing society and produced one of the first serious novels of immigrant life in Englis...
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Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English writer born in London to Jewish immigrants from Latvia and Poland. He wrote about Jewish life in the East End, campaigned for women's suffrage and for Jewish settlement, and gave the phrase melting pot to English. His works include Children of the Ghetto, The King of Schnorrers, Ghetto Comedies, and Dreamers of the Ghetto.
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English writer born in London to Jewish immigrants from Latvia and Poland. He wrote about Jewish life in the East End, campaigned for women's suffrage and for Jewish settlement, and gave the phrase melting pot to English. His works include Children of the Ghetto...
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