This turn-of-the-century novel portrays people born in the tenements around Hester Street who fight their way out of the slums to make it to the fashionable Allrightniks Row. Its colorful characters include the narrator of the story, a corrupt judge of the Superior Court, whose gross obesity has made him the "Haunch Paunch and Jowl" in the newspapers' cartoons. Based on historical events, the book is a story about ambition, politics, and opportunistic affairs, as well as friendship and family traditions. Ornitz describes a world in which the values of the shtetl are gradually disintegrating. He portrays Jews from the ghettos of New York's Lower East Side who started founding their new dynasties, some basing them on unscrupulous careers and others on social commitment.
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About Samuel Ornitz: Samuel Ornitz wrote this best-selling novel before he became a screenwriter in Hollywood.
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Barney Finn, Allen Street, Meyer Hirsch, Uncle Philip, New York, East Side, Dago Jack, Big Jim, Hymie Rubin, German Jews, Rov Zucker, Yom Kippur, Frenchie Lavelle, Black Riley, Lionel Crane, Harry Wotin, Second Avenue, Essex Street, Maxie Freund, Ludlow Street, Michel Cahn, Madame Mina, Dopie Ikie, Canal Street, Sam Rakowsky Browse Sample Pages:
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Barney Finn, Allen Street, Meyer Hirsch, Uncle Philip, New York, East Side, Dago Jack, Big Jim, Hymie Rubin, German Jews, Rov Zucker, Yom Kippur, Frenchie Lavelle, Black Riley, Lionel Crane, Harry Wotin, Second Avenue, Essex Street, Maxie Freund, Ludlow Street, Michel Cahn, Madame Mina, Dopie Ikie, Canal Street, Sam Rakowsky Browse Sample Pages:
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