Jews without Money is set in a slum populated mainly by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The father of the hero is a Romanian-born painter who suffers from lead poisoning. When he falls from a scaffold, he is disabled and can no longer work. His business fails and the family is pushed into poverty. The mother has to seek work in a restaurant. Although he is a bright boy, young Michael decides he must leave school. On the final page of the book, the poor Jewish boy prays for the arrival of a Marxistworker's revolution that will emancipate the working class.
The novel depicts a Zionist entrepreneur's fatal extortion of a poor Jew, which has been read as a proletarian critique of both American capitalism and of Zionism as a "bourgeois" movement that does not serve the interests of working-class American Jews.[a][5]
In his authorial note to the novel, Gold wrote, "I have told in my book a tale of Jewish poverty in one ghetto, that of New York. The same story can be of a hundred other ghettoes scattered over all the world. For centuries the Jew has lived in this universal ghetto."
^Taylor Dorrell (October 16, 2022). "Mike Gold Was a Working-Class Hero". Jacobin.
^Tuerk, Richard. “‘Jews Without Money’ as a Work of Art.” Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-), vol. 7, no. 1, 1988, pp. 67–79. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41205675. (subscription required) Accessed 27 Jan. 2023.
^"Mike Gold, the Writer Who Believed Workers Could Speak for Themselves". Jacobin. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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Balthaser, Benjamin (June 2020). "When Anti-Zionism Was Jewish: Jewish: Racial Subjectivity and the Anti-Imperialist Literary Left from the Great Depression to the Cold War". American Quarterly. 72 (2): 449–470. doi:10.1353/aq.2020.0019. S2CID 226699923.
Notes
^Jews without Money deals with the travails of a Rumanian Jewish painter who seeks to rise out of his difficulties by cultivating the company of a wealthy Brooklyn Zionist leader Baruch Goldfarb, depicted as a bourgeois fraudster who prays on gullible working-class Jews. Goldfarb offers him glowing prospects, a house in "God's country", a Jewish enclave in the suburbs, away from the multiethnic milieu he lives in and who gets him to join his gaudy, politicized lodge where vote-rigging and spying on labour unions is organized. Goldfarb eventually wheedles him out of his money (Balthaser 2020, pp. 449–450).
August 21, 2023
jews, without, money, jews, without, money, 1930, semi, autobiographical, novel, american, critic, mike, gold, mike, gold, 1930s, author, jews, without, money, contents, description, also, references, sources, notesdescription, editpublished, horace, liveright. Jews Without Money is a 1930 semi autobiographical novel by American critic Mike Gold Mike Gold 1930s author of Jews Without Money Contents 1 Description 2 See also 3 References 4 Sources 5 NotesDescription EditPublished by Horace Liveright shortly after the onset of the Great Depression 1 the novel is a fictionalized autobiography about growing up in the impoverished world of the Lower East Side beginning in the 1890s 2 Jews without Money was an immediate success and was reprinted 25 times by 1950 It was translated into 16 languages 3 It became a prototype for the American proletarian novel 4 Jews without Money is set in a slum populated mainly by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe The father of the hero is a Romanian born painter who suffers from lead poisoning When he falls from a scaffold he is disabled and can no longer work His business fails and the family is pushed into poverty The mother has to seek work in a restaurant Although he is a bright boy young Michael decides he must leave school On the final page of the book the poor Jewish boy prays for the arrival of a Marxist worker s revolution that will emancipate the working class The novel depicts a Zionist entrepreneur s fatal extortion of a poor Jew which has been read as a proletarian critique of both American capitalism and of Zionism as a bourgeois movement that does not serve the interests of working class American Jews a 5 In his authorial note to the novel Gold wrote I have told in my book a tale of Jewish poverty in one ghetto that of New York The same story can be of a hundred other ghettoes scattered over all the world For centuries the Jew has lived in this universal ghetto See also EditMike Gold Jewish American working class Proletarian literature Alan M WaldReferences Edit Jews without Money New York Horace Liveright 1930 Reprinted by Carol amp Graf 2004 Barry Gross Michael Gold 1893 1967 The Heath Anthology of American Literature ed Paul Lauter 5th edition http college cengage com english lauter heath 4e students author pages modern gold mi html Taylor Dorrell October 16 2022 Mike Gold Was a Working Class Hero Jacobin Tuerk Richard Jews Without Money as a Work of Art Studies in American Jewish Literature 1981 vol 7 no 1 1988 pp 67 79 JSTOR http www jstor org stable 41205675 subscription required Accessed 27 Jan 2023 Mike Gold the Writer Who Believed Workers Could Speak for Themselves Jacobin Retrieved 2023 05 06 Sources EditBalthaser Benjamin June 2020 When Anti Zionism Was Jewish Jewish Racial Subjectivity and the Anti Imperialist Literary Left from the Great Depression to the Cold War American Quarterly 72 2 449 470 doi 10 1353 aq 2020 0019 S2CID 226699923 Notes Edit Jews without Money deals with the travails of a Rumanian Jewish painter who seeks to rise out of his difficulties by cultivating the company of a wealthy Brooklyn Zionist leader Baruch Goldfarb depicted as a bourgeois fraudster who prays on gullible working class Jews Goldfarb offers him glowing prospects a house in God s country a Jewish enclave in the suburbs away from the multiethnic milieu he lives in and who gets him to join his gaudy politicized lodge where vote rigging and spying on labour unions is organized Goldfarb eventually wheedles him out of his money Balthaser 2020 pp 449 450 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jews without Money amp oldid 1153555711, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
