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Early twentieth-century New York teems with newcomers, many of them Jews from Eastern European shtetls chasing America: cramped tenements, sweatshops and pushcarts, but also noise, colour, many tongues and the bright lights of the Yiddish stage on East Broadway. Everyone, from housewives to yeshiva boys, devours shund, the cheap, tear-jerking Yiddish serials, many printed by the Hebrew Publishing Company. There young Mordechai Schuster begins as a typesetter's helper and resolves to become the most widely read of its hacks. The novel charts his ascent and decline along with the friends and sweethearts of the Lower East Side who long for the wealthier uptown blocks and keep turning up, barely disguised, in his lurid tales.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

270 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, early 20th century

First published

2011 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9789655179194 (original)