In any case, the intensity and richness of immediate experience is wonderful and the pacing, unusual. Written in 1930, this is a fictionalized memoir of growing up poor and Jewish on the Lower East Side of Manhattan: street urchins defend their territory, prostitutes, pushcart peddlers and other marginal businesses crowd the streets, and poor Jews, Italians and Irish live--not always peacefully--in the same tenements. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2014. Very vivid and colorful, but not too charming in the way A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is. At first I just found it sort of disgusting because it talked about prostitution and gang rape and bedbugs, but then the book became interesting as it delved into what brought his father to America, and about his cousin Lena, and so on. Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2019. [Michael Gold] -- As a writer and political activist in the early 20th century, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. 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. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. I clearly have a soft spot for books about the 1920s and 1930s, but this autobiographical novel about Jews on the Lower East Side in the early 20th century (the book was published in 1930) gripped me. To see what your friends thought of this book, Living as an immigrant on the Lower East Side during the '30s was tough, and Gold isn't one to be shy about the oppressive nature of poverty. 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. Please try again. Please try your request again later. Par exemple le livre de Jacob Riis. 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. I do think he did a nice job with the setting and the story is very readable with good pacing. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2016. Children leave school because their desperate families need their wages, to the chagrin of the Anglo public school teachers. They followed in the footsteps of Anzia Yezierska, a prolific writer of the 1920s whose passionate books about … A self-evident classic. Landlords refuse to provide heat and then evict objectors. Jews without money by Michael Gold, June 1984, Carroll & Graf Pub edition, Paperback in English Michael Gold's one and only novel. This book is a sociological wonder--full of "stereotypes" but completely truthful for the time period. Called a novel, it is for all practical purposes a memoir. 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