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Ghetto Tragedies (Hardcover)
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Ghetto Tragedies (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R503
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Ghetto Tragedies (1899) 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 fourth installment of his Ghetto series,
Zangwill imagines the lives of everyday Jewish people. Zillah and
Jossel, successful boot makers; Daniel Peyser, a father of seven
daughters; Isaac Levinsky, the son of a pious Rabbi. These are the
lives so lovingly shaped 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
Tragedies 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 Tragedies is a classic of
British literature reimagined for modern readers.
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