Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York
Book Details
Author(s)
Cahan, Abraham
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN / ASIN
0486224279
ISBN-13
9780486224275
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#285,524
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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."
