A Ghetto Violet

A Ghetto Violet is an English translation of a tale by Leopold Kompert (1822-1886), the Bohemian-born Jewish writer who created the German-language genre of the ghetto tale, the Ghettogeschichte, depicting Jewish village life in the Bohemian and Moravian small towns of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid-nineteenth century. Kompert worked in Vienna as a journalist and editor and produced collections including Aus dem Ghetto, Böhmische Juden, and Geschichten einer Gasse that drew on his own Bohemian Jewish childhood and on the older oral traditions of the region. His tales gave urban German Jewish readers a sympathetic literary portrait of the small-town world many of them had left a generation earlier. A Ghetto Violet is one of the best-known shorter pieces from his collected ghetto stories and is a primary source for the German-language Jewish literary tradition of the period. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.