Israël ZANGWILL, Children of the ghetto. Paris, Henri Jonqui - Lot 751

Israël ZANGWILL, Children of the ghetto. Paris, Henri Jonquières, 1925. Illustrated by Halicka. In-4, paperback binding in illustrated cover. Numbered copy 76 on Rives. Sought-after work for Halicka's illustrations. "The immense success of Children of the Ghetto earned its author the nickname Jewish Dickens. Laughter and tears, comedy and tragedy, fierce satire and tender empathy accompany our immersion in a crowd of intensely alive characters, with an astonishing vitality in the face of adversity: little people, upstarts, small, medium and large bourgeois, and certain traditional types of Jewish folklore: the schnorrer (the beggar), the shadh'en (the matchmaker), the shlemihl (the poor guy), the jester" (Les Belles Lettres, book presentation). Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba