The Rise of David Levinsky
$50.16
- Paperback
556 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
The Rise of David Levinsky, written by the legendary founder and editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, is an early Jewish-American classic. According to the scholar Sam B. Girgus, “The novel is more than an important literary work and cultural document. It forms part of the traditional ritual of renewal of the American Way.”
First published in 1917, Abraham Cahan’s realistic novel tells the story of a young talmudic scholar who emigrates from a small town in Russia to the melting pot of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757983 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375757988 |
| Author: | Abraham Cahan, Seth Lipsky |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 556 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 652g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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Critics Review
“It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture.” –Isaac Rosenfeld
“It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture.”
–Isaac Rosenfeld
Abraham Cahan
Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He edited the newspaper for ten years and is now a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.
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