- Hardcover: 672 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (5 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224079298
- ISBN-13: 978-0224079297
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 111,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"a triumphant achievement"
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"A fascinating account of the life of a master criminal."
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Format:Hardcover
This is a book of real substance and not a small amount of wit and finely observed human drama. Charles Van Onselen has delivered a story that sweeps confidently over late 19th century Eastern Europe and the Atlantic cities of the new world around the turn of the 20th century. It also drops a laser guided missile into the now somewhat jaded story of the most infamous serial killer of our times: The Whitehall murderer of 1888. Dealing primarily in the human and social effects of the mass disengorgement of Jewry from Russia after the Pale of Settlement, it hones in on the life of Joseph Lis, alias Silver, a Jew from a small village in Russian Poland. The author paints a vivid and disturbing picture of the criminal psycopathy of Silver and his central role in creating the modern commercial sex and white slave trade. We are given access to painstaking research of police records, criminal trials and very shady characters in Silver's disturbed orbit. The story depicts a world in the throes of chaotic change - mass transit travel, porous international borders, rapid urbanisation and the first hints of media induced 'moral panic' in major global cities. Joseph Silver is a man whose dark instincts are proffered mass and multiple outlets by these changes in the global pulse. For scholars of 'Ripperology', we have a new and convincing suspect. For those interested in European social history of the period, we have new material to begin dissecting the sudden and intense magnification of anti-Semitism in the mass consciousness of Europeans in the first two decades of the twentieth century. All in all, a fascinating and gripping story which will engage the reader on many levels.
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...because this is what Santa brought me this Christmas.
Dull, dull, dull.
And the Jack the ripper link is so tenuous that even a tabloid journalist would query the legitimacy of it.
Promising material botched magnificently.
Dull, dull, dull.
And the Jack the ripper link is so tenuous that even a tabloid journalist would query the legitimacy of it.
Promising material botched magnificently.
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The publisher seems to be pushing the was Joseph Silver Jack the Ripper line, which is patently rubbish, and lets the book down. It makes it look like another shlocky tru-crime Ripper title rather than the interesting biography it really is.
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