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The Children of the Ghetto
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…

Contributor:

Israel Zangwill

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Cities, Migration, Poverty, Hunger

Categories:

Fiction
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Reportage