Children of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Children of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Excerpt from Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People

Hence, too, the prevalent craving for a certain author's blood could not be gratified at Mrs. Henry Goldsmith's Chanukah dinner. Besides, nobody knew where to lay hands upon Edward Armitage, the author in question, whose opprobrious production Mordecai josephs, had scandalised west-end Judaism.

Why didn't he describe our circle? Asked the hostess, an angry fire in her beautiful eyes. It would have at least corrected the picture. As it is, the public will fancy that we are all daubed with the same brush - that we have no thought in life beyond dress, money and solo-whist.' He probably painted the life he knew, ' said Sidney Graham, in defence.

Then I am sorry for him, ' retorted Mrs. Goldsmith. It's a great pity he had such detestable acquaintances. Of course, he has cut himself off from the possibility of any better now.' The wavering flush on her lovely face darkened with disinterested indignation, and her beautiful bosom heaved with judicial grief.

I should hope so, ' put in Miss Cissy Levine sharply. She was a pale, bent woman, with spectacles, who believed in the mission of Israel, and wrote domestic novels to prove that She had no sense of humour. N 0 one has a right to foul his own nest. Are there not plenty of subjects for the Jew's pen without his attacking his own people? The calumniator of his race should be ostracised from decent society.' As according to him there is none, ' laughed Sidney Graham, I cannot see where the punishment comes in.'

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Israel Zangwill was a British humorist and writer who lived from January 21, 1864 until August 1, 1926. Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864, to Moses Zangwill from Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from Poland, into a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia. He devoted his life to fighting for the rights of the disadvantaged. His writing found rich ground in Jewish emancipation, women's suffrage, assimilationism, territorialism, and Zionism. His brother, author Louis Zangwill, was also a writer, and his son, Oliver Zangwill, was a well-known British psychologist.

Zangwill was educated in Plymouth and Bristol throughout his early years. Zangwill was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields, east London, when he was nine years old, a school for Jewish immigrant children. The school provided a demanding course of secular and religious education, as well as clothes, food, and health care for the students; now, one of the school's four houses is named for him. Israel excelled at this institution and even taught part-time before becoming a full-fledged teacher.

He studied for his degree at the University of London, getting a BA with triple honours in 1884 while teaching. Edith Ayrton, a gentile feminist and author, was the daughter of cousins Matilda Chaplin and William Edward Ayrton, and Zangwill married her. Later in life, he made connections with well-known Victorian authors like Jerome K. Jerome. H. and Jerome

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ISBN 13	9781900355629
ISBN 10	1900355620
Title	Children of the Ghetto
Author	Israel Zangwill
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Black Apollo
Year published	2011-04-18
Number of pages	336
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