Yekl
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Immigrants
ISBN :
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Immigrants
ISBN :
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1776590813
This classic account of the dark side of the immigration experience was the first book published by Abraham Cahan, who himself immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in early adulthood. Protagonist Jake Podkovnik is eager to shed all traces of his upbringing and ethnicity and embrace the American dream -- but his transformation has negative consequences that ripple further than anyone could have expected.
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625581343
His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably commented on by the press both in America and in England. W. D. Howells compared Cahan's work to that of Stephen Crane, and prophesied for him a successful literary future.
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486122573
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 hero from the New York's East Side.
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto" by Abraham Cahan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Lothrop Stoddard
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Caucasian race
ISBN :
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177659083X
Abraham Cahan immigrated to the United States from Lithuania at the age of 21, and he enthusiastically adopted New York City as his hometown. In this charming collection of short stories, alternately humorous and gritty, the kaleidoscope of experiences of recent immigrants to the big city are chronicled in engrossing detail.
Author : Barbara Diamond Goldin
Publisher : Two Lions
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
When the Knoodle family tries to follow their rabbi's advice about giving the perfect gift, everything goes wrong and their Hanukkah seems ruined until the rabbi comes to straighten things out.
Author : Merle L. Bachman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815631514
According to traditional narratives of assimilation, in the bargain made for an American identity, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture. Or did they? Recovering "Yiddishland" seeks to “return” readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. It reconstructs “Yiddishland” as a cultural space produced by Yiddish immigrant writers from the 1890s through the 1930s, largely within the sphere of New York. Rejecting conventional literary history, the book spotlights “threshold texts” in the unjustly forgotten literary project of these writers—texts that reveal unexpected and illuminating critiques of Americanization. Merle Lyn Bachman takes a fresh look at Abraham Cahan’s Yekl and Anzia Yezierska’s Hungry Hearts, tracing in them a re-inscription of the Yiddish world that various characters seem to be committed to leaving behind. She also translates for the first time Yiddish poems featuring African-Americans that reflect the writers’ confrontation with their passage, as Jews, into “white” identities. Finally, Bachman discusses the modernist poet Mikhl Likht, whose simultaneous embrace of American literature and resistance to assimilating into English marked him as the supreme “threshold” poet. Conscious of the risks of any postmodern—“post-assimilation”—attempt to recover the past, Bachman invents the figure of “the Yiddish student,” whose comments can reflect—and keep in check—the nostalgia and naivete of the returnee to Yiddish.
Author : Cathy Schlund-Vials
Publisher : American Literatures Initiativ
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging. Modeling Citizenship examines fiction, memoir, and drama to reflect on how the logic of naturalization has operated at discrete moments in the twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on two exemplary literary works. For example, Schlund-Vials shows how Mary Antin's Jewish-themed play The Promised Land is reworked into a more contemporary Chinese American context in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. In her compelling analysis, Schlund-Vials amplifies the structural, cultural, and historical significance of these works and the themes they address.