Salome of the TenementsSalome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her highborn John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader. |
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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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ain't America Anglo-Saxon Anzia Yezierska arms asked beauty Bread Givers breath burning clothes cold color crazy cried culture dear Dewey door dreams dress drew East Side educated emotion Essex Street face feel felt Fifth Avenue fingers flame flashed flung friends Ghetto girl Gittel glance gown hand hate head heart Hester Street higher-ups Honest Abe hundred dollars Hungry Hearts hurt immigrant Jacques Hollins Jaky Solomon Jewish John John Dewey knew landlord leaped Lipkin lips live Lower East Side Manning's marriage married millionaire never novel passion Pastor Stokes pawnbroker Peltz philanthropist poor poverty realized rich Rose Pastor Rose Pastor Stokes Rosenblat rushed Salome seemed settlement house shoulders silence smile social Sonya looked Sonya Vrunsky Sonya's eyes soul stared stood suddenly talk tear tell Tenements thing thought Sonya touch turned voice walked whole woman wondered words youth Ziskind
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Salome of the Tenements Radical novel reconsidered |
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| Contributor | Gay Wilentz |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0252064356, 9780252064357 |
| Length | 184 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
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