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A 3 page essay that examines Abraham Cahan’s 1896 novel Yekl, which tells the story of a Jake, a new Jewish immigrant to the United States who was originally from a town in northwestern Russia, where he was known as “Yekl or Yekele” (Cahan). Within the course of Jake’s personal narrative, Cahan addresses several thematic topics that pertain to immigrant experience and assimilation within American culture. No additional sources cited.
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was known as "Yekl or Yekele" (Cahan). Within the course of Jakes personal narrative, Cahan addresses several thematic topics that pertain to immigrant experience and assimilation within American culture. When
writing his/her own paper, drawing on this research, the student should relate these thematic topics to issues that have been discussed in class. First of all, Cahan introduces Jake
and the current circumstances of his life. Jake works in a sweatshop in the clothing district of New York. There is a plethora of information in this novel that gives
the reader insight into nineteenth century Jewish culture. For example, at one point, Cahan pictures a female coworker, Fanny, retorting in "vituperative Yiddish from that vocabulary which is the undivided
possession of her sex" (Cahan). This is extremely intriguing, as are other details that are mentioned. For example, Cahan gives the reader a comprehensive overview of the nature of the
Jewish community in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century. Cahan writes that this community sheltered Jews from "every nook and corner of Russia, Poland, Galicia, Hungary, Romania;
Lithuanian Jews, Volhynian Jews, south Russian Jews, Bessarabian Jews," (Cahan). The author goes on to emphasize the diversity of this ethnic group as this community includes "people with all sorts
of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one social caldron" (Cahan). How does this overview relate to what has
been discussed in class? Has class discussion touched on the tendency for Americans to consider immigrants as one homogenous group, where they are in reality greatly diversified even within ethnic
groups? While Jake speaks of his wife and child profusely when he first arrives, by the time he moves to New York, he has altered his behavior and "carefully
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