Salome of the TenementsThe 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 and engagingly sardonic, it criticizes the concept of the American "Melting Pot" in the language of the Lower East Side and exposes the hypocrisy of the "good works" of the privileged class and their so-called dedication to the poor. Gay Wilentz's introduction discusses Anzia Yezierska's life and work. Originally published in 1923. |
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User Review - PatsyMurray - LibraryThingI was deeply disappointed in this book. It certainly is unusual. A transliteration from Yiddish into English, the language takes a little getting used to, but what was even more difficult for me was ... Read full review
Contents
Salome Meets Her Saint | 1 |
Shopping for Simplicity | 12 |
Jaky Solomon and Jacques Hollins | 17 |
The Inner Temple of Fashion | 21 |
The Democracy of Beauty | 26 |
Manning Touches the Pulse of the People | 32 |
Sonya Stoops to Conquer | 41 |
The Lily Out of an AshCan | 56 |
Love in Chaos | 89 |
GreenwoldGods Own Eden | 103 |
The Days After | 109 |
The East Side Shakes Hands with Society | 117 |
The Crumbling Temple | 132 |
Only Paying Up | 140 |
The Chasm | 143 |
Tor the Truth They Burn You | 154 |
Honest Abe | 59 |
Passion and Roses | 65 |
Manning Himself | 73 |
Lipkin the Dreamer | 78 |
The Temple of Serenity | 82 |
The Feel of the Beautiful | 164 |
Understanding | 174 |
Revelation | 179 |
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