Cahan, Abraham,  1860-1951 <br/><br/>
The Rise of David Levinsky 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_David_Levinsky  Release date is 2001-09-01 
<br/><br/> "The Rise of David Levinsky" by Abraham Cahan is a novel published in 1917. It tells the story of a Russian Jewish immigrant's journey from abject poverty to wealth in America. Born in the Russian Empire, David loses his mother to violence and abandons his Talmudic studies to pursue a new life. He arrives in New York as a penniless greenhorn, slowly shedding his old-world ways while navigating love, labor, and the promises of his adopted homeland. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Psychological fiction Immigrants -- Fiction Jewish men -- Fiction Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction Clothing trade -- Fiction Millionaires -- Fiction Jewish fiction Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction Jews -- Russia -- Fiction Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction 
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