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Ghetto Comedies (Paperback)
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Ghetto Comedies (Paperback)
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Loot Price R315
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Ghetto Comedies (1907) is a collection of stories 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. In the fifth and final installment of his Ghetto
series, Zangwill imagines the lives of everyday Jewish people. A
German painter searches for a Jewish model for his painting of
Jesus Christ; Solomon Cohen, or S. Cohn, rises to prominence as a
Town Councillor in Sudminster while suppressing his Jewish
heritage; Bloomah Beckenstein, a young Jewish girl, is blamed for
spreading smallpox at her school in London. These are the lives
that take shape in the author's skillful hands, people whose
experiences with love, loss, doubt, and faith are not so different
from our own. The tales of Jewish life in Ghetto Comedies 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 Ghetto Comedies is a classic of British
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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