Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People

Zangwill, Israel · 1926

Author of "The Master," "The King of Schnorrers" "Dreamers of the Ghetto," "Without Prejudice," etc. The issue of a one-volume edition gives me the opportunity of thanking the public and the critics for their kindly reception of this chart of a _terra incognita_, and of restoring the original sub-title, which is a reply to some criticisms upon its artistic form. The book is intended as a study, through typical figures, of a race whose persistence is the most remarkable fact in the history of the world, the faith and morals of which it has so largely moulded. At the request of numerous readers I have reluctantly added a glossary of 'Yiddish' words and phrases, based on one supplied to the Am…

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