Jews without Money - Softcover

Michael Gold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412812712 ISBN 13: 9781412812719

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

<p> Michael Gold's Jews Without Money tells the story of Jewish poverty in one ghetto, that of the lower East Side, New York, during the heyday of Jewish life there in the 1920s. Here we find a world of struggle--Jews against Gentiles, Jews against each other; a universe of gangsters and rabbis, men and women, children and adults all told in the first-person vernacular of a boy growing to manhood dedicated to making clear his love of a long-suffering mother.</p>

About this title

Review:

"A landmark; the first Jewish novel to make a dent on American culture."--Village Voice

About the Author:

Michael Gold went on to identify himself with radical currents in the 1930s, and came close to a repudiation of his own works of the 1920s by averring that he only wanted to spit whenever he thought of the 1920s. He later saw his earlier work as a bulwark against reaction and a foundation for an authentic American novel. Like Ralph Ellison, with whom he was often identified, Gold was the writer of a singular claim to fame, which indeed was Jews Without Money.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412812712
• ISBN 13: 9781412812719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264