02858cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500700014426400510021430000470026533600260031233700260033833800360036450001320040050000310053250501140056350802170067752014100089453400450230465300520234965300590240185600430246099900170250343028UtSlPG20260610134003.0mcr n260607r2013||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCahan, Abraham,d1860-195114aThe Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2013  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imported_Bridegroom,_and_Other_Stories_of_the_New_York_Ghetto  aRelease date is 2013-06-240 aThe imported bridegroom -- A providential match -- A sweat-shop romance -- Circumstances -- A ghetto wedding.  aProduced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Akers and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
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by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  a"The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto" by Abraham Cahan is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The narratives delve into the lives and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York City, examining their cultural assimilation, identity, and the complexities of love and familial obligations. One of the central characters introduced in the opening story is Flora Stroon, a young woman yearning for a life beyond her ghetto upbringing, who faces the prospect of an arranged marriage that clashes with her aspirations.  At the start of the book, we meet Flora, who is absorbed in reading Dickens while contemplating her desire to marry a refined American gentleman rather than the God-fearing business men favored by her father, Asriel Stroon. Asriel has recently become more pious and is determined to arrange Flora's marriage in line with his traditional values. This conflict between Flora's aspirations and her father's intentions is heightened when Asriel announces plans to travel to his hometown in Europe, stirring a mix of hope and apprehension in Flora. The opening chapter sets the stage for exploring the generational and cultural conflicts within a Jewish immigrant family, particularly as Flora's fate becomes entangled with that of Shaya, a young Talmudic scholar brought from the old country. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aJews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction  aUnited States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43028  c83867d83867