Name: Haunch Paunch and Jowl
SKU: 57194056
Price: 31.80 EUR
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Author: Ornitz, Samuel ; Dinerstein, Joel
ISBN: 9781608012695

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Author

Samuel Ornitz

Illustrated by

Joel Dinerstein

Publisher

University of New Orleans Press

Language

English

Pages

310

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781608012695

Synopsis "Haunch Paunch and Jowl"

Long out of print, Samuel Ornitz's Haunch, Paunch, & Jowl (1923) deserves the renewed attention it has received as a lost classic of modernist Jewish-American literature. The novel provides a panorama of the first generation of Jewish immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side through a cohort of young men: the struggles between religion and secular success, socialism and capitalism, tradition and modernity, manufacturers and labor unions. Originally marketed as an autobiography, the novel became a best-seller as an exposé of corruption. It was the first work by author Samuel Ornitz, a lifelong reformer later blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten during the McCarthyist era. Ornitz intended for his narrator, Meyer Hirsch, to be a negative example of assimilation, yet Meyer Hirsch's savvy voice still speaks contemporary American truths about poverty, social mobility, corruption, ethnic politics, and the costs of social mobility.

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