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Title: Ghetto Comedies

Author: Israel Zangwill

Language: English

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Inconsistent hyphenation and inconsistant spelling in the original document have been preserved. This document contains Yiddish and other dialects.

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LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21, BEDFORD STREET.




At last I said "Good morning."

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Ghetto Comedies

By

Israel Zangwill

Author of
'The Grey Wig,' 'Dreamers of the Ghetto,'
'The Master,' 'Children of the Ghetto,'
'Ghetto Tragedies,' etc.



With Illustrations by J.H. Amschewitz



Publisher's Mark



London
William Heinemann
1907







Copyright by William Heinemann, 1907










TO
MY OLD FRIEND
M.D. EDER







NOTE


Simultaneously with the publication of these 'Ghetto Comedies' a fresh edition of my 'Ghetto Tragedies' is issued, with the original title restored. In the old definition a comedy could be distinguished from a tragedy by its happy ending. Dante's Hell and Purgatory could thus appertain to a 'comedy.' This is a crude conception of the distinction between Tragedy and Comedy, which I have ventured to disregard, particularly in the last of these otherwise unassuming stories.

I.Z.

Shottermill,
April, 1907.







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AT LAST I SAID 'GOOD MORNING' Frontispiece
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'I WORK ON—ON SHABBOS' 142
'YOU COMPARE MY WIFE TO A KANGAROO!' 276
THE JEWS SCATTERED BEFORE HIM LIKE DOGS 408










                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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