Great Immigrant Stories
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Abraham Cahan Bücher
Abraham Cahan war ein einflussreicher jüdisch-amerikanischer Journalist und Schriftsteller, dessen Werk sich mit dem Leben und den Kämpfen von Einwanderern befasste. Mit seinen Schriften erfasste er die sozialen Realitäten und kulturellen Umbrüche seiner Zeit. Cahans literarischer Stil zeichnete sich durch scharfe Beobachtung und Empathie aus, was den Lesern einen tiefen Einblick in die Erfahrungen derjenigen bot, die sich ein neues Leben aufbauten. Seine journalistischen Bemühungen prägten auch die öffentliche Meinung und setzten sich für sozialistische Ideale ein.
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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.
"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 HowellsIn Yekl, the central problem derives from a social condition: the urgent desire of the hero to become a real American, to be less a "greenhorn"; but the play of events is around an emotional crisis; Yekl no longer loves the wife he left behind, who has now rejoined him in the new land, and who seems to him shockingly European.In The Imported Bridegroom, the issue is apparently religious, a clash between traditional faith and secularism; but we are left wondering whether philosophy has not become commingled with sociology. Other stories deal with sweatshop life, romance in the slums, a wedding in the ghetto.
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