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Salome of the Tenements

Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064357
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Salome of the Tenements written by Anzia Yezierska and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader.

Salome of the Tenements

Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Salome of the Tenements written by Anzia Yezierska and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Jewish girl from the slums marries a millionaire Gentile philanthropist, but leaves him to become a dress designer." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

The Salome Ensemble

Author : Alan Robert Ginsberg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653654
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Salome Ensemble written by Alan Robert Ginsberg and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.

Arrogant Beggar

Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher : S.B. Gundy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Arrogant Beggar written by Anzia Yezierska and published by S.B. Gundy. This book was released on 1927 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of David Levinsky

Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146359
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of David Levinsky written by Abraham Cahan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bread Givers

Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892552900
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Bread Givers written by Anzia Yezierska and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture Makers

Author : Amy Koritz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033841
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Culture Makers written by Amy Koritz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent necessity of consumerism as a behavior and ideology; and the urbanization of the population, in concert with the invention of urban planning and the recognition of specifically urban subjectivities. Koritz analyzes plays by Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Rachel Crothers; popular dance forms of the 1920s and the modern dance and choreography of Martha Graham; and literature by Anzia Yezierska, John Dos Passos, and Lewis Mumford.

Salomé

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726598728
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Salomé written by Oscar Wilde and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a story from the Bible, ‘Salomé’ provoked such outrage that it was banned from the British stage for a number of years. However, fiercely defended by academics for its literary worth, that law was finally overturned. In this dark tale, the beautiful Salomé tries to seduce the imprisoned prophet, Iokanaan. When he refuses her advances, Salomé is transformed into the ultimate femme fatale. A lyrical and fascinating play that deals with the themes of love, lust, revenge, murder, and madness, ‘Salomé’ is ideal for those who want to see Wilde at his most bloodthirsty. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote 43 poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.

Nibsy's Christmas

Author : Jacob A.Riis
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Nibsy's Christmas written by Jacob A.Riis and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " It was Christmas-eve over on the East Side. Darkness was closing in on a cold, hard day. The light that struggled through the frozen windows of the delicatessen store, and the saloon on the corner, fell upon men with empty dinner-pails who were hurrying homeward, their coats buttoned tightly, and heads bent against the steady blast from the river, as if they were butting their way down the street."

The Salome Project

Author : Gail P. Streete
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532618875
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Salome Project written by Gail P. Streete and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not even sure of her name: it might have been Salome; it might have been Herodias, like that of her mother. She appears very briefly in only two Gospels of the New Testament, to dance at the birthday party of her mother’s husband, Herod, the ruler of Galilee. We do not even know what kind of dance it was, but we are told that it pleased him so much he promised to give her anything she asked for. What she asked for was the head of the prophet John the Baptist on a platter. Although she disappeared from the pages of the New Testament, Salome and her dance have puzzled, intrigued, and dominated the imaginations of artists and writers for two millennia. Was she just a little girl doing a dance performance to please her stepfather and his guests? Was she a nubile teenager bent on seduction? Was she a femme fatale who aimed at the death of a man she could not possess? The Salome Project is the result of a quest to answer these questions and find the real Salome.

Red Ribbon on a White Horse

Author : Anzia Yezierska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892551248
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Red Ribbon on a White Horse written by Anzia Yezierska and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzia Yezierska tells of her odyssey from the sweatshops of New York's Lower East Side to success in Hollywood and then a return to poverty in New York

American Jewish Fiction

Author : Josh Lambert
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827610025
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book American Jewish Fiction written by Josh Lambert and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.

The Tenement Saga

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 0299204839
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Tenement Saga written by Sanford Sternlicht and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, and Henry Roth, and others defined this new "Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists. Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, politics, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into what they called "The Golden Land."

Salome's Modernity

Author : Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472036041
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Salome's Modernity written by Petra Dierkes-Thrun and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.

Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly

Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752382031
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly written by Hamlin Garland and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly by Hamlin Garland

The Lost German Slave Girl

Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219978X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Lost German Slave Girl written by John Bailey and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post). It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a “white” past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller’s celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, part African, and a slave for life? The Lost German Slave Girl is a tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel. “Bailey keeps us guessing until the end in this page-turning true courtroom drama of 19th-century New Orleans . . . [He] brings to life the fierce legal proceedings with vivid strokes.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Nights Out

Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183682
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Nights Out written by Judith Walkowitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.