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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto

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Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero. Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism."
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