Jew Boy

Simon Blumenfeld

1935

Chapter VIII

Olive liked her new job very much. She had never before tasted such rich, well-cooked food in her life. She put on weight. She was contented.

There wasn’t too much work; just cleaning the shop in the morning, running a couple of errands during the day, making the beds and helping Mrs. Bercovitch keep the rooms tidy.

Dave’s mother was a…

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Simon Blumenfeld

1907–2005

The novelist and journalist Simon Blumenfeld was born and raised in the East End of London. He was closely associated with his fellow East End writers Willy Goldman and the brothers Barnet and Emanuel Litvinoff. His first novel, Jew Boy (1935), was a harsh semiautobiographical portrait of a young Jewish man seeking to free himself from poverty and familial suffocation in London’s immigrant quarter. After World War II, Blumenfeld entered the world of show business and sports journalism and began to publish Western novels using various pseudonyms.

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