Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486224279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
disappointing work by a great author Your Inner Child I had read Abraham Cahan's "the rise of David Levinsky" and loved it. Cahan wrote relatively few novels. So when I discovered this novel by Cahan I bought it. If you want to be extraordinarily impressed by his work buy Levinsky, Not this novel.. Great retellings of Jewish stories based in New York! Great retellings of Jewish stories based in New York! I had to read it for school, but it was worth it!. WOW- After a Steerage voyage and passed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor- Then what? Yiddish Forwards long time editor and social radical Abraham Cahan is probably at his time and all time the greatest authority on Yiddish speaking Immigrants to the US and especially New York and the famed Lower East Side.You will laugh and laugh and sigh, sigh with Nachas! All about mariage, work and divorce of Eastern European immigrants, many forced to leave the Old Country persecutions and poverty for the Goldena Medina - America. Yekl, for example, leaves his Kosher and very Religious Jewish
Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism.". Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero