E-text prepared by David Edwards, Jeannie Howse, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 35238-h.htm or 35238-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35238/pg35238-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35238/35238-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/grandchildrenofg00zanguoft +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: "_Levi! A great cry of anguish rent the air._" _Chapter VIII_] The Wayfarers Library THE GRANDCHILDREN OF THE GHETTO by ISRAEL ZANGWILL J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. THE CHRISTMAS DINNER 3 II. RAPHAEL LEON 24 III. 'THE FLAG OF JUDAH' 45 IV. THE TROUBLES OF AN EDITOR 63 V. A WOMAN'S GROWTH 77 VI. COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? 88 VII. WHAT THE YEARS BROUGHT 112 VIII. THE ENDS OF A GENERATION 122 IX. THE 'FLAG' FLUTTERS 126 X. ESTHER DEFIES THE UNIVERSE 137 XI. GOING HOME 150 XII. A SHEAF OF SEQUELS 161 XIII. THE DEAD MONKEY AGAIN 185 XIV. SIDNEY SETTLES DOWN 192 XV. FROM SOUL TO SOUL 200 XVI. LOVE'S TEMPTATIONS 219 XVII. THE PRODIGAL SON 232 XVIII. HOPES AND DREAMS 239 GLOSSARY 249 GRANDCHILDREN OF THE GHETTO CHAPTER I THE CHRISTMAS DINNER