Ghetto Tragedies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Israel Zangwill

Following the previous year’s Dreamers of the Ghetto, this 1899 collection of sketches includes “ ‘They That Walk in Darkness,’ ” “Transitional,” “Noah’s Ark,” “The Land of Promise,” “To Die in Jerusalem,” “Bethulah,” “The Keeper of Conscience,” “Satan Mekatrig,” “Diary of a Meshumad,” “Incurable,” and “The Sabbath-Breaker.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: May 17, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411451551

Israel Zangwill

Zangwill, the son of Latvian and Polish immigrants, was born in London’s East End and showed literary promise as early as eighteen. A teacher for some years after he graduated from London University, he eventually left the profession to write full-time, publishing hundreds of essays, as well as novels, short stories and plays produced in London and New York. His work concentrated on political, social and Jewish issues but The Big Bow Mystery was his only venture into detective fiction.