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    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
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    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton

    By Israel Zangwill and J. A. Hammerton

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    “A Rose of the Ghetto” is a 1919 short story by British author Israel Zangwill (1864–1926). This amusing tale of English countryside and customs is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Zangwill's much-celebrated work.
    Zangwill was a leading figure in cultural Zionism during the 19th century, as well as close friend of father of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl. In later life, he renounced the seeking of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A notable portion of Zangwill's work concentrated on ghetto life and earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto". This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an introductory chapter from “English Humourists of To-Day” by J. A. Hammerton.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Books
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781528789929
    A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story: With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton
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    Israel Zangwill

    Zangwill, the son of Latvian and Polish immigrants, was born in London’s East End and showed literary promise as early as eighteen. A teacher for some years after he graduated from London University, he eventually left the profession to write full-time, publishing hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories and plays produced in London and New York. His work concentrated on political, social and Jewish issues but The Big Bow Mystery was his only venture into detective fiction.

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      A Rose of the Ghetto - A Short Story - Israel Zangwill

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      A ROSE

      OF THE GHETTO

      A SHORT STORY

      WITH A CHAPTER FROM

      English Humorists of To-day

      BY J. A. Hammerton

      By

      ISRAEL ZANGWILL

      First published in 1894

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      Contents

      Israel Zangwill

      A ROSE OF THE GHETTO

      Israel Zangwill

      Israel Zangwill

      This picture though it is not much

      Like Zangwill, is not void of worth

      It has one true Zangwillian touch

      It looks like nothing else on earth.

      Oliver Herford

      Confessions of a Caricaturist,

      Perhaps some one will suggest that Mr. Israel Zangwill is a humorist only as one whom we loved long since and lost awhile, because of late years — indeed, for more than a decade — little that is entirely humorous has come from his pen. On the other hand, he has never been a humorist who inspires affection: he is somewhat too intellectual for that. There is no novelist who, with greater justice, takes himself and his art more seriously than Mr. Zangwill has

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