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The Grey Wig is a novel written by I. Zangwill. The story revolves around characters including Madame Dépine and Madame Valière who were tenants at the Hôtel des Tourterelles in Paris. Practically it was two old maids whose boots turned pointed toes towards each other in the dark cranny of the fusty corridor of the sky floor. Madame la Propriétaire and Madame Dépine were neighbors at the Hôtel des Tourterelles in Paris. But they never spoke to...

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Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English humourist and writer. Zangwill wrote the influential book Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase "melting pot" to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularized by his play The Melting Pot, a hit in the United States in 1908.He also wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery and social satire such as The King of Schnorrers. Dre...

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Excerpt from Children of the Ghetto, Vol. 1 of 3The folk who compose our pictures are Children of the Ghetto. Their faults are bred of its hover ing miasma of persecution, their virtues straitened and intensified by the narrowness of its horizon. And they who have won their way beyond its boundaries must still play their parts in tragedies and comedies tragedies of spiritual struggle, comedies of material ambition which are the aftermath of it...

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), the foremost Anglo-Jewish author of his generation, chronicled London's Jewish East End in the last decades of the 19th century. After receiving a BA degree with triple honours from the University of London he devoted himself to journalism and literature, writing sketches, essays and editorials about Jewish immigrants for a number of British and American periodicals, and publishing numerous short stories and severa...

Excerpt from The Bachelors ClubIt was incumbent upon all candidates to deposit with the Secretary two independent certificates of non marriage, each signed by a householder (married) who had known the candidate from his cradle, and, further more, to make oath that they held the marriages of other men, and especially of their fathers, to be failures. The respectable married householder had to fill up a printed blue form, containing the followin...

Excerpt from The Master: A NovelAh, but to see the world with other eyes than one's fellows, yet express the vision of one's race, its subconscious sense of beauty, is not all a covetable dower.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally r...

Excerpt from The Old Maid's ClubAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such ...

Excerpt from The Grey Wig, Stories and NovelettesThey both styled themselves "Madame, " but only the younger of the old ladies had been married. Madame Valiere was still a demoiselle, but as she drew towards sixty it had seemed more convenable to possess a mature label. Certainly Madame Depine had no visible matrimonial advantages over her fellow-lodger at the Hotel des Tourterelles, though in the symmetrical cemetery of Montparnasse (Section ...

Excerpt from Dreamers of the GhettoThe first thing the child remembered was looking down from a window and seeing, ever so far below, green water ¿owing, and on it gondolas plying, and fishing-boats with colored sails, the men in them looking as small as children. For he was born in the Ghetto of Venice, on the seventh story of an ancient house. There were two more stories, up which he never went, and which remained strange re gions, leading t...

Excerpt from They That Walk in Darkness: Ghetto TragediesThe Ghetto Tragedies collected in a little vol ume in 1893 have been so submerged in the present collection that I have relegated the original name to the sub-title. Satan Mekatrig was written in 1889, Bethulah this year. Anyone who should wish to measure the progress or decay of my imagi nation during the ten years has therefore materials to hand. Noah's Ark stands on the firmer Ara rat...