The story of a young, aspiring Jewish woman from the ghetto who will do anything to get her man in this case an upper-class WASP. When she discovers he is not really what she wanted, she will do anything to get away. Based on the real-life story of the Jewish immigrant activist Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes, the novel also reflects Yezierska's own doomed romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Passionate...
I had never heard of the novel Salome of the Tenements, or even the author Anzia Yezieraska, when I was assigned the novel in a graduate class last semester. The rest of the students in the class hadn't either. Upon reading the book, however, I discovered that such ignorance is tragic. Salome of the Tenements is a fascinating work that should certainly be more widely known. The novel is the sometimes-melodramatic story of...
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