The Grandchildren of the Ghetto
By Israel Zangwill
- Release Date: 1926-01-01
- Genre: Religious Fiction
Description
Daintily-embroidered napery, beautiful porcelain, Queen Anne silver, exotic flowers, glittering glass, soft rosy light, creamy expanses of shirt-front, elegant low-necked dresses—all the conventional accompaniments of Occidental gastronomy. It was not a large party. Mrs. Henry Goldsmith professed to collect guests on artistic principles, as she did bric-à-brac, and with an eye to general conversation. The elements of the social salad were sufficiently incongruous to-night, yet all the ingredients were Jewish. For the history of the Grandchildren of the Ghetto, which is mainly a history of the middle classes, is mainly a history of isolation'.The Upper Ten' is a literal phrase in Judah, whose aristocracy just about suffices for a synagogue quorum.
