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Children of the Ghetto - A Study of a Peculiar People (Paperback)
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Children of the Ghetto - A Study of a Peculiar People (Paperback)
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Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a
novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia
and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish
community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an
educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the
oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing
witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and
stories of the Victorian era. "People who have been living in a
Ghetto for a couple of centuries, are not able to step outside
merely because the gates are thrown down, nor to efface the brands
on their souls by putting off the yellow badges. The isolation
imposed from without will have come to seem the law of their
being." As a Jewish immigrant who grew up in poverty in London,
Israel Zangwill knows that the condition of life in the ghetto
changes not just lives, but mentalities. Even if the Jews living in
squalor on the East End of London were given the same rights as
native Britons, they would still live with fear and doubt every day
of their lives. In the first novel of his Ghetto series, Zangwill
explores the day to day existence of these very people,
illuminating their hopes and their dreams, illustrating their
struggle to uphold traditions threatened by assimilation and the
increasing secularism of modern life. The tales of Jewish life in
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People earned
Zangwill comparisons to Dickens upon publication, and helped to
establish him as an author with a gift for intensive character
study and a passion for political themes. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar
People is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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