Children of the Ghetto - A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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only those words which occur but once and are then explained in the
text; and to each word I have added an indication of the language from which it was drawn. This may please those who share Mr. Andrew Lang's and Miss Rosa Dartle's desire for information. It will be seen that most of these despised words are pure Hebrew; a language which never died off the lips of men, and which is the medium in which books are written all the world over even unto this day. I.Z. London, March, 1893. CONTENTS. BOOK I. THE CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO. Proem I. The Bread of Affliction II. The Sweater III. Malka IV. The Redemption of the Son and the Daughter V. The Pauper Alien VI. "Reb" Shemuel VII. The Neo-Hebrew Poet |
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