Dreamers of the Ghetto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502824691)

The first thing the child remembered was looking down from a window and seeing, ever so far below, green water flowing, and on it gondolas plying, and fishing-boats with colored sails, the men in them looking as small as children. For he was born in the Ghetto of Venice, on the seventh story of an ancient house. There were two more stories, up which he never went, and which remained strange regions, leading towards the blue sky. A dusky staircase, with gaunt whitewashed walls, led down and down-past doors whose lintels all bore little tin cases containing holy Hebrew words-into the narrow court of the oldest Ghetto in the world. A few yards to the right was a portico leading to the bank of a canal, but a grim iron gate barred the way. The water of another canal came right up to the back of the Ghetto, and cut off all egress that way; and the other porticoes leading to the outer world were likewise provided with gates, guarded by Venetian watchmen.

Author: Israel Zangwill
ISBN-10: 1502824698
ISBN-13: 9781502824691
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.30d