Jews without Money

Jews Without Money is a 1930 semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Michael Gold. It tells of a boy growing up in the impoverished Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Published by Horace Liveright in February 1930—soon after the October 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression—the book's gritty depiction of tenement life resonated with readers and catapulted Gold to literary fame.