Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
A Literature, School, College book. Abraham Cahan, author of "Yekl" and other stories, was the editor and founder of the "Jewish Daily Forward". In...
"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." — William Dean HowellsYekl (1896), the novel upon which the highly successful film Hester Street was based, was written by Abraham Cahan, editor of the prestigious Jewish Daily Forward for half a century. It is probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero; reviewing it, Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism." The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories came two years later.The Jews that Sholem Aleichem described in their little old-world shtetl had emigrated; other tale-tellers were needed to describe the Jewish experience in the tenements and...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780486224275 / 486224279
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More About Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
I read "Yekl" and "The Imported Bridegroom," but that makes up well over half the book, so I'm calling the book "read." I enjoyed these stories but I wonder if it's because the characters reminded me very much of my grandparents at times... outside of "yekl" i have a hard time telling the other stories apart. Abraham Cahan, author of "Yekl" and other stories, was the editor and founder of the "Jewish Daily Forward". In these stories of life amongthe turn of the century immigrants in New York, he gives us many insightsinto the problems these newcomers faced as they were torn between twovery different cultures. The ways they adjusted and faced...
