Full name: Jews Without Money: A Novel

Author: Michael Gold Year: 1930 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780786713455 0786713453

As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times. First published in 1930, this fictionalized autobiography offered an unusually candid look at the thieves, gangsters, and ordinary citizens who struggled against brutal odds in lower East Side Manhattan. Like Henry Roth's Call It Sleep and Abraham Cahan's The Rise and Fall of David Levinsky, Jews Without Money is a literary landmark of the Jewish experience. Michael Gold (1893-1967) was born in New York City, where later he wrote for radical journals and newspapers such as New Masses and The Liberator. Jews Without Money has been translated in more than fourteen countries, including Germany, where the novel was employed against Nazi propaganda. Similar books: Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Manhattan Loverboy by Arthur Nersesian The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau Days of Awe by Achy Obejas The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson