In its first appearance in 1892, Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto created a sensation in both England and America, becoming the first Anglo-Jewish bestseller and establishing Zangwill as the literary voice of Anglo-Jewry. Children of the Ghetto remains a landmark work of modern Jewish fiction as well as an essential late Victorian text. The novel conveys details of life in the ghetto and explores a spiritual crisis among young Jews at a time when a questioning of beliefs appeared in Christian novels as well. Zangwill's realistic portrayal intrigued middle-class Jews and elicited nostalgia in those who started out in the East End. Although a novel about British Jews, Children of the Ghetto also found success in the U.S. as the first work of fiction published by the Jewish Publication Society of America. This volume brings back to print the 1895 edition of Children of the Ghetto, the latest American version known to have been corrected by the author.