...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...

... The Rise of Abraham Cahan (New York: Schocken). A biography chronicling how Cahan attained power and influence in the political, journalistic, and literary ranks of twentieth-century America. Greenblatt Ginensky and Wirth-Nesher † Recent Scholarship in Yiddish Studies 433 Manger, Itzik 2002 [1939...

... People of the Book ( New York : Viking ). Cahan Abraham 1896 Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto ( New York : Appleton ). 1917 The Rise of David Levinsky ( New York : Harper ). Chabon Michael 2007 The Yiddish Policeman's Union ( New York : HarperCollins...

....: 84) grounded in the language practices of the day and in the artistic choices about language representation made by the authors he examines, among them Leo Kobrin, Moyshe Nadir, and Abraham Cahan. Rosenwald offers an astute reading of Sholem Aleichem’s celebrated American work Motl, the Cantor’s...