The first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during…

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…

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in…

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…

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…

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…

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 hero from the New York’s…