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Dreamers of the Ghetto
by Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Good
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Good. 5.25"x7.5"; 536 pages; Red cloth, gilt top; gilt lettering on front and spine; JPS emblem on front; fraying along edges, pages toned. Date on title page. Hinge exposed but not cracked. Moisture stain to cover's edges. Rubs w/slight fraying to edges. No DJ. Unmarked. Burnt pinholes on pages iii-2. Spine slight slant, binding tight, slight tone to pages. Not x-library. In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. A novel set in late nineteenth-century London, Children of the Ghetto gave an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle-class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population, providing a compelling analysis of a generation caught between the ghetto and modern British life.
This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author. Meri-Jane Rochelson places the novel in proper context by providing a biographical, historical, and critical introduction; a bibliography of primary and secondary sources; and notes on the text, making this ground-breaking novel accessible to a new generation of readers, both Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author. Meri-Jane Rochelson places the novel in proper context by providing a biographical, historical, and critical introduction; a bibliography of primary and secondary sources; and notes on the text, making this ground-breaking novel accessible to a new generation of readers, both Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8474
- Title
- Dreamers of the Ghetto
- Author
- Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society of America
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1898
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