‘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.’

The first edition of Michael Gold’s classic semi-autobiographical account of growing up in New York’s Lower East Side.

Jews Without Money by Michael Gold. Illustrated by Howard Simon. Horace Liveright Publishers, New York. 1930.

Contents: Fifty Cents a Night, How Babies Are Made, A Gang of Little Yids, Summer Toadstools, Did God Make Bedbugs?, The Miser and the Bum, The Golden Bear, The Promised Bride, Sam Kravitz, That Thief, A House Painter’s Tears, The Gangster’s Mother, Mushrooms in Bronx Park, Jews and Christians, Buffalo Bill and the Messiah, The Saint of the Umbrella Store, How to Become a Millionaire, Two Doctors, The Soul of a Landlord, he Young Avengers, Blood Money, Bananas, The Job Hunt. 309 pages, illustrated.

PDF of full book: https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.179099/2015.179099.Jews-Without-Money-By-Michael-Gold_text.pdf