SOURCE: “Of Tragedy and Comedy,” in Israel Zangwill, Columbia University Press, 1964, pp. 71–91.
In the following essay from his book-length study of Zangwill, Wohlgelernter explores tragedy and comedy as complementary aspects of Jewish ghetto life in such short story collections as Ghetto Tragedies, Ghetto Comedies, The Celibates' Club, The Grey Wig, and The King of Schnorrers.
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