Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York

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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. Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism."

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York,Abraham Cahan,Dover Publications,0486224279,Fiction,Fiction - General,Jewish fiction,Jews,Literary,New York,New York (N.Y.),New York (State),Social life and customs,Literary Collections / General,Modern fiction

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