The Rise of David Levinsky

Name: The Rise of David Levinsky
Author: Abraham Cahan

by Abraham Cahan

Novel of a Jewish immigrant's rise from poverty to wealth and social estrangement

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Abraham Cahan

Abraham Cahan was the founding editor of the Jewish Daily Forward and the first major chronicler of Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side. The Rise of David Levinsky is the definitive immigrant novel in American literature.

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