"Children of the Ghetto" is an engrossing novel set in late nineteenth-century London. It gave an inside look into an immigrant community almost as mysterious to Britain's more established middle-class Jews as to the non-Jewish population. The writer, through this story, provides an interesting analysis of a generation stuck between the ghetto and modern British life.
Children of the Ghetto; Ghetto Comedies; Ghetto Tragedies; The King of Schnorrers; The Melting Pot/Chosen People; The War for the World; Dreamers of the Ghetto; Italian Fantasies.
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"Daintily-embroidered napery, beautiful porcelain, Queen Anne silver, exotic flowers, glittering glass, soft rosy light, creamy expanses of shirt-front, elegant low-necked dresses-all the conventional accompaniments of Occidental gastronomy.It was not a large party. Mrs. Henry Goldsmith professed to collect guests on artistic principles, as she did bric-à-brac, and with an eye to general conversation. The elements of the social salad were sufficiently incongruous to-night, yet all the ingredients were Jewish."
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. This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author. Meri-Jane Rochelson places the novel in proper context by providing a biographical, historical, and critical introduction; a bibliography of primary and secondary sources; and notes on the text, making this ground-breaking novel accessible to a new generation of readers, both Jewish and non-Jewish alike
Excerpt from Children of the Ghetto, Vol. 1 of 3 The folk who compose our pictures are Children of the Ghetto. Their faults are bred of its hover ing miasma of persecution, their virtues straitened and intensified by the narrowness of its horizon. And they who have won their way beyond its boundaries must still play their parts in tragedies and comedies tragedies of spiritual struggle, comedies of material ambition which are the aftermath of its centuries of dominance, the sequel of that long cruel night in Jewry which coincides with the Christian Era. I f they are not the Chil dren, they are at least the Grandchildren of the Ghetto. The particular Ghetto that is the dark back ground upon which our pictures will be cast is of voluntary formation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Zangwill was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century.THE GRANDCHILDREN OF THE GHETTO: "Daintily embroidered napery, beautiful porcelain, Queen Anne silver, exotic flowers, glittering glass, soft rosy light, creamy expanses of shirt-front, elegant low-necked dresses-all the conventional accompaniments of Occidental gastronomy. It was not a large party. Mrs. Henry Goldsmith professed to collect guests on artistic principles-as she did bric-�-brac-and with an eye to general conversation. The elements of the social salad were sufficiently incongruous to-night, yet all the ingredients were Jewish..."
