Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People

Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography PRIMARY SOURCES: WORKS BY ISRAEL ZANGWILL (DATES OF FIRST PUBLICATION ARE GIVEN.) EARLY, UNCOLLECTED FICTION "Professor Grimmer." Society 16 Nov. 1881: 10-12; 23 Nov. 1881: 8, 10-11; 30 Nov. 1881: 8, 10-11. Motso Kleis, or the Green Chinee [pamphlet], by Shloumi Yoshki ben Shlemeal [Zangwill]. London: Privately printed, Civil Service Printing and Publishing, 1882. "Under Sentence of Marriage," by J. Freeman Bell [Zangwill]. Jewish Calendar, Manual, and Diary (1888-89): 54-79. In addition, according to Bernard Winehouse's dissertation (see secondary sources below), Zangwill edited and wrote stories for Purim, a humorous Jewish annual, between 1883 and 1885. The only copy of the magazine I have been able to locate is the 1883 edition in the British Library; its editor and contributors are anonymous. NOVELS The Premier and the Painter, by J. Freeman Bell [Zangwill and Louis Cowen]. London: Blackett , 1888; Chicago & New York: Rand McNally, 1896. The Big Bow Mystery [short novel, originally serialized in the London Star, 1891]. London: Henry & Co., 1892; Chicago & New York: Rand McNally, 1895. Children of the Ghetto. 3 vols. London: Heinemann, 1892; 2 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1892. Merely Mary Ann [short novel]. London: R. Tuck & Sons, 1893. The Master. London: Heinemann, 1895; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. The Mantle of Elijah. London: Heinemann, 1900; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. The Serio-Comic Governess [short novel]. London: Shurmer Sibthrop, 1902. Jinny the Carrier. London: Heinemann, 1919; New York: Macmillan, 1919. COLLECTED FICTION Many of the stories collected in anthologies listed below originally appeared in periodicals such as the Jewish Calendar, Manual, and Diary, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolis, the Illustrated 45 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY London News, the Sketch, and others. Several first appeared in the Idler between 1892 and 1895, when Zangwill was a regular contributor of short stories and a participant in the recurring roundtable feature, "The Idler's Club." The Bachelors' Club [thematically connected sketches]. London: Henry & Co., 1891; New York: Brentano's, 1891. The Old Maids' Club [thematically connected sketches]. London: Heinemann, 1892; New York: Tait, 1892. Ghetto Tragedies. London: McClure & Co./Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1893. The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies [contains the short novel of the title (originally serialized in the Idler) and fifteen short stories]. London: Heinemann, 1894; New York & London: Macmillan, 1894. The Celibates' Club, Being the United Stories of The Bachelors' Club and The Old Maids7 Club. London: Heinemann, 1898; New York & London: Macmillan, 1905. Dreamers of the Ghetto [fictionalized biography]. London: Heinemann, 1898; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. They That Walk in Darkness: Ghetto Tragedies. London: Heinemann, 1899; New York & London : Macmillan, 1899. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes [includes The Big Bow Mystery, Merely Mary Ann, The Serio-Comic Governess, and five short stories]. London: Heinemann, 1903; New York & London: Macmillan, 1903. Ghetto Comedies. London: Heinemann, 1907; New York: Macmillan, 1907. PLAYS With Louis Cowen. The Great Demonstration. London: Capper & Newton, 1893. Merely Mary Ann. New York & London: Macmillan, 1903; London: Heinemann, 1904. The Serio-Comic Governess. New York & London: Macmillan, 1904. The Melting Pot: Drama in Four Acts. New York: Macmillan, 1909. The War God, A Tragedy in Five Acts. London: Heinemann, 1911. The Next Religion, A Play in Three Acts. London: Heinemann, 1912; New York: Macmillan, 1912. Plaster Saints: A High Comedy in Three Movements. London: Heinemann, 1914; New York: Macmillan, 1915. The Cockpit, Romantic Drama in Three Acts. London: Heinemann, 1921; New York: Macmillan , 1921. The Forcing House, or The Cockpit Continued: Tragicomedy in FourActs. London: Heinemann, 1922; New York: Macmillan, 1923. Too Much Money, A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts. London: Heinemann, 1924; New York: Macmillan, 1925. We Moderns, A Post-War Comedy in Three Movements. London: Heinemann, 1925; New York: Macmillan, 1926. POETRY Blind Children. London: Heinemann, 1903; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1903. [This volume collects poems which appeared in Zangwill's works of fiction and newspaper columns, as free-standing periodical contributions, and as translations of the liturgy in Service of the Synagogue.] NONFICTION The following list includes collections of Zangwill's nonfictional writings as well as selected individual essays of interest. Much more can be found in the periodicals to which Zangwill 46 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY was an ongoing contributor: the Jewish Standard, for which he served as subeditor and humor columnist from 1888 to 1891; Puck (later Ariel), a general interest humor paper which he edited from March 1890 to February 1892; the Pall Mall Magazine, to which he contributed a regular column between 1893...