Research Catalog

Title

Children of the Ghetto : a study of a peculiar people / by I. Zangwill.

Author

Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926

Publication

New York : The Macmillan Co., l899.

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Details

Description

xix, 553 p.; 20 cm.

Alternative Title

Ghetto, Children of the.

Subject

• Jews > England > London > Fiction
• London (England) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book I. The children of the ghetto -- The bread of affliction -- The sweater -- Malka -- The redemption of the son and daughter -- The pauper alien -- "Reb" Shemuel -- The Neo-Hebrew poet -- Esther and her children -- Dutch Debby -- A silent family -- The Purim ball -- The sons of the covenant -- Sugarman's Barmitzvah party -- The hope of the family -- The Holy Land league -- The courtship of Shosshi Shmendrik -- The Hyam's honeymoon -- The Hebrew's friday night -- With the strikers -- The hope extinct -- The jargon players -- "For auld lang syne, my dear" -- The dead monkey -- The shadow of religion -- Seder night -- Book II. The grandchildren of the ghetto -- The Christmas dinner -- Raphael Leon -- "The flag of Judah" -- The troubles of an editor -- A woman's growth -- Comedy or tragedy? -- What the years brought -- The ends of a generation -- The "Flag" flutters -- Esther defies the universe -- Going home -- A sheaf of sequels -- The dead monkey again -- Sidney settles down -- From soul to soul -- Love's temptation -- The prodigal son -- Hopes and dreams.

LCCN

^^^41033257^

OCLC

• 3357699
• SCSB-12581074

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library