Abraham Cahan fue un influyente periodista y escritor judío-estadounidense cuya obra profundizó en las vidas y las luchas de los inmigrantes. A través de su escritura, capturó las realidades sociales y las transiciones culturales de su época. El estilo literario de Cahan se caracterizó por una aguda observación y empatía, ofreciendo a los lectores una visión profunda de las experiencias de aquellos que forjaban nuevas vidas. Sus esfuerzos periodísticos también moldearon el discurso público y abogaron por ideales socialistas.
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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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