Download or read book Journey Through a Small Planet written by Emanuel Litvinoff and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Journey Through a Small Planet' Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. With vivid intensity, Litvinoff describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish.