📖 Israel Zangwill wrote with compassion and understanding of the ghettoes of England and America -- and never with such force as in the sketches and tales that make up Children of the Ghetto, first published in 1892.A prominent member of Jewish literary society in London, Zangwill was a lecturer and playwright, in addition to novelist. He prepared a version of Children of the Ghetto for the stage just before the turn of the last century.