One of Abraham Cahan’s most famous works brings late 19th century Russia to life in this fictional autobiography. David Levinsky tells the story of a young man who grows up…

His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably…

Yekl; a Tale of the New York Ghetto is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such…

Only nineteen and a poor orphan, the fame of the prospective bridegroom, as a marvel of acumen and memory, reached far and wide. Few of the subtlest rabbinical minds in…

An early Jewish American classic about a young Russian Talmudic scholar who immigrates to the melting pot of turn of the century New York City. He rises from greenhorn to…

In this timeless collection, Abraham Cahan describes in lush detail the life and times of the Jewish immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York City. The chronicles of life and death, dreams…

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‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.