131010
9780486224275
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."Cahan, Abraham is the author of 'Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto', published 1970 under ISBN 9780486224275 and ISBN 0486224279.
[read more]