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_aCahan, Abraham, _d1860-1951 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2013 |
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| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imported_Bridegroom,_and_Other_Stories_of_the_New_York_Ghetto | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2013-06-24 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aThe imported bridegroom -- A providential match -- A sweat-shop romance -- Circumstances -- A ghetto wedding. | |
| 508 | _aProduced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) | ||
| 520 | _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.) | ||
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| 653 | _aJews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aUnited States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction | ||
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