Children of Men

Children of Men is a collection of fictional short stories about Jewish immigrants to New York during the early 1900s. These stories revolve around sweatshop workers and the absorbing interactions between Jewish immigrants and the Christians that lived in that area. It contains a mix of sad and humorous stories, with intriguing characters that interest the reader throughout the book. The book is exceptionally illustrative of the lives of Jewish immigrants during the period, making it a work of historical significance. The author's major short stories, like the present work, chronicled life in the Jewish ghetto of New York City. He was a Jewish American journalist and columnist Rudolph Edgar Block who wrote under the pen name of Bruno Lessing.