Salome of the tenements

Resource Information

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Label

Salome of the tenements

Statement of responsibility

Anzia Yezierska ; introduction by Gay Wilentz

Creator

• Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Jewish women -- Fiction
• Jewish women -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Jews -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Married women -- Fiction
• Married women -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Political fiction
• Radicals -- Fiction
• Women immigrants -- Fiction
• Women immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Jewish fiction
• Political fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader

Member of

• Radical novel reconsidered

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3547.E95

LC item number

S35 1995

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Radical novel reconsidered