Abraham Cahan is a Jewish American author living in 1900s. His famous novel titled The Rise of David Levinsky has autobiographical characteristics whose protagonist is David Levinsky himself who was born in Kovno, a northwestern Russia, in 1865 like his author. Levinsky, a poor young orphan decides to move America after losing his mother in 1881 Gentile riot. He regards America as “a unique country, unlike the rest of the world” (Cahan, 87). In this sense his perception resembles the other East European Jews who would be exposed to Pogroms. “The notion that the overwhelming majority of east European Jews who came to the United States between 1880 and 1915 were Orthodox has assumed a central position in the popular mythology of American-Jewish life” (Singer, 696). His life, and perspective to America is the same as other Jewish immigrants who flee from the pogroms. In America no matter how he well advance in both business and personal life, he feels estranged to his background like every East-European Jewish. Also Cahan deals with social and sociocultural life of immigrants living in New York. It has In this study, The Rise of David Levinsky will be studied in terms of new historicist criticism.
Abraham Cahan, David Levinsky, Levinsky, New Historicism, The Rise of David Levinsky,
| Author : | Faruk KALAY |
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| Number of pages: | 539-554 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.8362 |
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