Oscar Wilde wrote of this novel, "Its directness, its
uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its
absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some
sort, a classic." Reuben Sachs, the story of an extended
Anglo-Jewish family in London, focuses on the relationship between
two cousins, Reuben Sachs and Judith Quixano, and the tensions
between their Jewish identities and English society. The novel's
complex and sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-Jewish life,
which was in part a reaction to George Eliot's romanticized view of
Victorian Jews in Daniel Deronda, caused controversy on its first
publication. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since
its initial publication in The Jewish Chronicle Levy's essay "The
Jew in Fiction." Other appendices include George Eliot's essay on
anti-Jewish sentiment in Victorian England and a chapter from
Israel Zangwill's novel The Children of the Ghetto. Also included
is a map of Levy's London with landmarks from her biography and
from the "Jewish geography" of Reuben Sachs.
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