Book Description
"A Jewish girl from the slums marries a millionaire Gentile philanthropist, but leaves him to become a dress designer." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Assimilation (Sociology)
ISBN :
"A Jewish girl from the slums marries a millionaire Gentile philanthropist, but leaves him to become a dress designer." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780252064357
Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader.
Author : Alan Robert Ginsberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815653654
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.
Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher : S.B. Gundy
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Boardinghouses
ISBN :
Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486425177
A young Hasidic Jew seeks his fortune in New York's Lower East Side. He turns from his religious studies to focus on the business world, where he discovers the high price of assimilation.
Author : Amy Koritz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0252033841
In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent necessity of consumerism as a behavior and ideology; and the urbanization of the population, in concert with the invention of urban planning and the recognition of specifically urban subjectivities. Koritz analyzes plays by Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Rachel Crothers; popular dance forms of the 1920s and the modern dance and choreography of Martha Graham; and literature by Anzia Yezierska, John Dos Passos, and Lewis Mumford.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1907
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780892551248
Anzia Yezierska tells of her odyssey from the sweatshops of New York's Lower East Side to success in Hollywood and then a return to poverty in New York
Author : Jacob A.Riis
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2023-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
" It was Christmas-eve over on the East Side. Darkness was closing in on a cold, hard day. The light that struggled through the frozen windows of the delicatessen store, and the saloon on the corner, fell upon men with empty dinner-pails who were hurrying homeward, their coats buttoned tightly, and heads bent against the steady blast from the river, as if they were butting their way down the street."
Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0300183682
London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.