02645cam a22003613u 4500 77482 UtSlPG 20260610134808.0 m cr n 260607r20251918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PR Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926 Children of the ghetto. French Les enfants du Ghetto Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-12-17 Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon | Numelyo, 424245) Les enfants du Ghetto by Israel Zangwill is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in London’s East End, it follows Jewish immigrant life amid poverty, piety, and philanthropy, balancing humor and critique. Early focus rests on the struggling Ansell family—especially schoolgirl Esther and her devout father Moses—alongside neighbors like the Belcovitches, the aspiring musician Pesach Weingott, and the formidable matriarch Malka. The opening of the novel paints Fashion Street in fog and hunger as young Esther Ansell queues at a soup kitchen, where dignitaries make speeches before the poor are served; she hurries home only to drop and lose the precious soup, and the charity bread proves inedible. Downstairs, the Belcovitch family celebrates Fanny’s engagement to Pesach, revealing sweatshop routines, matchmaking, petty snobberies, and a vein of kindness as the couple discreetly brings their soup to the starving Ansells. The narrative then follows Moses searching fruitlessly for work among cobblers and “sweaters,” observing the crush of schoolchildren and market sellers, before turning to the more prosperous kin Malka in Square Zacharie, where a comic neighbor quarrel and a family rift over a symbolic clothes brush frame his anxious appeal for help. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Paris: Georges Crès et Cie, 1918 London (England) -- Fiction Jewish fiction Jews -- England -- London -- Fiction Mille, Pierre, 1864-1941 https://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/f_view/BML:BML_00GOO0100137001104529453 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77482 118202 118202