The experiences of the Jewish community in the East End inspired many works of fiction. Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), educated in Spitalfields, wrote the influential "Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People" (1892) and other novels on this subject. Another Jewish writer, Simon Blumenfeld (1907–2005) wrote plays and novels, such as "Jew Boy" (1935), informed by his years in Whitechapel. Wolf Mankowitz, of Bethnal Green, was another Jewish writer from the area. His 1953 book "A Kid for Two Farthings", set in the East End, was adapted for the cinema three years later. Alexander Baron (1917–1999) was born in Whitechapel and wrote of his wartime experiences in the Invasions of Italy and Normandy in the trilogy "From The City From The Plough", "There's no Home" and "The Human Kind". Later he wrote of the East End, including the Jewish gangster novel, "King Dido" and the "Human Kind".