Israel Zangwill and Children of the Ghetto.

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

WHEN ISRAEL ZANGWILL'S CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO first appeared in 1892, it created a sensation on two continents and established its author as the preeminent literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. A novel set in the late nineteenth century, Children of the Ghetto gave readers an inside look into an immigrant community that was nearly as mysterious to more established, middleclass Jews as it was to the non-Jewish population of Britain; at the same time, it provided a compelling analysis of the generation caught between the ghetto and modem British life. In a period that saw the development ...

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