A Ghetto Violet

Authors: Kompert Leopold

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Leopold Kompert (1822-1886) was a Bohemian Jewish writer. He studied at the universities of Prague and Vienna, and was for several years tutor in the house of Count George Andrassy. In 1857 he entered the service of the Vienna Creditanstalt. As a member of the Vienna city council Kompert displayed a useful activity in the interest of education, and likewise, as a member of the board of the Jewish congregation, in the promotion of religious instruction. He took an active part also in the Israelit

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ische Allianz of Vienna. He draws the transition from the life in the narrow ghetto to the farmer's life in the open field; and he shows the struggles, doubts, and misgivings of those who, yielding to the impulse of modern times, undergo the changes of their newly chosen career. Kompert's first story, Der Schnorrer, appeared in 1846 in Ludwig August Frankl's Sonntagsblatt, then followed by Böhmische Juden (1851) and Am Pfluge (1855). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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