19th Century Fiction
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Assimilation
Author_Israel Zangwill
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Class and Society
Cultural Identity
Diaspora
Dickens of the Ghetto
England
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Ethnic Identity
Historical Novel
Immigrant Experience
immigrants
Israel Zangwill
Jewish community
Jewish fiction
Jewish ghetto
Jewish Ghetto Life
Jewish Literature
Jews
late 19th century
London
London East End
orthodox Jews
poverty
Religious Tradition
Social Realism
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9781513137322
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2022
- Publisher: West Margin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Having immigrated in search of a better life, thousands of orthodox Jews find themselves confined to a desperately crowded London ghetto. As they restart their lives, many of these people--who largely hail from eastern Europe--succumb to poverty, despair, and disease. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People is a novel by Israel Zangwill.
Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was a British writer. Born in London, Zangwill was raised in a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Alongside his brother Louis, a novelist, Zangwill was educated at the Jews’ Free School in Spitalfields, where he studied secular and religious subjects. He excelled early on and was made a teacher in his teens before studying for his BA at the University of London. After graduating in 1884, Zangwill began publishing under various pseudonyms, finding editing work with Ariel and The London Puck to support himself. His first novel, Children of the Ghetto: A Study of Peculiar People (1892), was published to popular and critical acclaim, earning praise from prominent Victorian novelist George Gissing. His play The Melting Pot (1908) was a resounding success in the United States and was regarded by Theodore Roosevelt as “among the very strong and real influences upon [his] thought and [his] life.” He spent his life in dedication to various political and social causes. An early Zionist and follower of Theodor Herzl, he later withdrew his support in favor of territorialism after he discovered that “Palestine proper has already its inhabitants.” Despite distancing himself from the Zionist community, he continued to advocate on behalf of the Jewish people and to promote the ideals of feminism alongside his wife Edith Ayrton, a prominent author and activist.
