Children of the Ghetto: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Children of the Ghetto, credited to Israel Zangwill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Children of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill. Read in English by Adrian Praetzellis In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of transplanted eastern European Jews against the forces of assimilation. Zangwill's knowledge of Yiddishkeit and skill in melodrama created a series of unforgettable vignettes that had a significant effect on the public perception of this much stigmatized immigrant group. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was born in London of Russian and Polish parents. He coined the term cultural "melting pot". (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Children of the Ghetto
• Author credits: Israel Zangwill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 15:17:39

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 00 - Proem — 32:46
2. 01 - Chap 1 The Bread of Affliction — 22:16
3. 02 - Chap 2.1 The Sweater — 18:56
4. 03 - Chap 2.2 The Sweater — 27:32
5. 04 - Chap 3 Beauty & the Beast — 13:36
6. 05 - Chap 4 Petticoat Lane — 11:30
7. 06 - Chap 5.1 Malka — 18:41
8. 07 - Chap 5.2 Malka — 21:41
9. 08 - Chap 6.1 The Redemption of... — 18:46
10. 09 - Chap 6.2 The Redemption of... — 28:32
11. 10 - Chap 7 The Pauper Alien — 18:42
12. 11 - Chap 8 The Wisdom of Solomon — 18:06
13. 12 - Chap 9 Reb Shemuel — 24:24
14. 13 - Chap 10.1 The Neo-Hebrew Poet — 24:10
15. 14 - Chap 10.2 The Neo-Hebrew Poet — 13:51
16. 15 - Chap 11.1 Esther and her Children — 19:26
17. 16 - Chap 11.2 Esther and her Children — 20:08
18. 17 - Chap 12 Dutch Debby — 20:43
19. 18 - Chap 13 A Silent Family — 17:20
20. 19 - Chap 14.1 The Purim Ball — 16:15
21. 20 - Chap 14.2 The Purim Ball — 19:13
22. 21 - Chap 15.1 Sons of the Commandment — 15:35
23. 22 - Chap 15.2 Sons of the Commandment — 23:22
24. 23 - Chap 16 Sugarman's Bar Mitzvah Party — 31:47

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