In the crowded streets of London’s Jewish East End, sweaters, peddlers, scholars and schnorrers live out a tragi-comedy of poverty and faith. Zangwill follows the Ansell family and the pious Reb Shemuel and his daughter Hannah, along with a neo-Hebrew poet, market women and immigrants, and then traces how the next generation moves into the wider world.
The 1892 novel that brought Anglo-Jewish life into English fiction, rich in humour and pathos. Download the free EPUB.