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1932 · 161056 — New York: Horace Liveright 1932. 14th printing. Very Good. quarto. hardback in original cloth 309pp. illusts. Jews without Money is set in a slum populated mainly by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The father of the hero is a Romanian-born painter who suffers from lead poisoning. When he falls from a scaffold he is disabled and can no longer work. His business fails and the family is pushed into poverty. The mother has to seek work in a restaurant. Although he is a bright boy young Michael decides he must leave school. On the final page of the book the poor Jewish boy prays for the arrival of a Marxist worker's revolution that will emancipate the working class. Horace Liveright hardcover