The Rise of David Levinsky - Softcover

Cahan, Abraham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434603636 ISBN 13: 9781434603630

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, 2007

Synopsis

Sometimes- when I think of my past in a superficial casual way the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

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From the Inside Flap

The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the "Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, "The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of the American Way."
First published in 1917, Abraham Cahan's realistic novel tells the story of a young talmudic scholar who emigrates from a small town in Russia to the melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York City. As the Jewish "greenhorn" rises from the depths of poverty to become a millionaire garment merchant, he discovers the unbearably high price of assimilation.

From the Back Cover

"It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture."
--Isaac Rosenfeld

About this edition

• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1434603636
• ISBN 13: 9781434603630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 532