Jews Without Money

This "stirring" novel of Jewish immigrant experience in NYC "has the deep shadows of a Rembrandt picture, and the high challenge of a Whitman poem" (The New York Times).

New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. Young Mikey and his family forge a life on the Lower East Side among thieves, gangsters, prostitutes, and ordinary working-class immigrant families like themselves who came to America in search of a dream and found themselves scraping to get by. An autobiographical novel rich with the kind of powerful writing that ignited author Michael Gold's career as a journalist for social change, Jews Without Money is a vital and passionate record of Jewish American experience in the early twentieth century. 

"A landmark; the first Jewish novel to make a dent on American culture." —The Village Voice