Children of the ghetto: A study of a peculiar people

In the preface, Zangwill states that the book is intended as a study, through typical figures, of a race whose persistence is the most remarkable fact in the history of the world, the faith and morals of which it has so largely moulded. A novel set in late 19th century London, the book gives an inside look into an immigrant community that was almost as mysterious to the more established middle class Jews of Britain as to the non-Jewish population