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Grandchildren of the Ghetto (Paperback)
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Grandchildren of the Ghetto (Paperback)
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Grandchildren of the Ghetto (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
second 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. A new
generation experiences wealth and comfort beyond the wildest dreams
of those who came before them. But what will they do with their
newfound privilege? The tales of Jewish life in Grandchildren of
the Ghetto 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 Grandchildren of the Ghetto is a
classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
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