Project Gutenberg 2013-06-24 Public domain in the USA. 289 Cahan, Abraham 1860 1951 The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imported_Bridegroom,_and_Other_Stories_of_the_New_York_Ghetto The imported bridegroom -- A providential match -- A sweat-shop romance -- Circumstances -- A ghetto wedding. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Akers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto" by Abraham Cahan is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The narratives delve into the lives and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York City, examining their cultural assimilation, identity, and the complexities of love and familial obligations. One of the central characters introduced in the opening story is Flora Stroon, a young woman yearning for a life beyond her ghetto upbringing, who faces the prospect of an arranged marriage that clashes with her aspirations. At the start of the book, we meet Flora, who is absorbed in reading Dickens while contemplating her desire to marry a refined American gentleman rather than the God-fearing business men favored by her father, Asriel Stroon. Asriel has recently become more pious and is determined to arrange Flora's marriage in line with his traditional values. This conflict between Flora's aspirations and her father's intentions is heightened when Asriel announces plans to travel to his hometown in Europe, stirring a mix of hope and apprehension in Flora. The opening chapter sets the stage for exploring the generational and cultural conflicts within a Jewish immigrant family, particularly as Flora's fate becomes entangled with that of Shaya, a young Talmudic scholar brought from the old country. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43028/43028-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 70.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: American Literature 339210 2025-08-17T10:45:04.833662 text/html 322126 2024-10-23T16:36:53 text/html 370788 2025-08-17T10:45:09.552636 application/epub+zip 373169 2025-08-17T10:45:05.642695 application/epub+zip 210334 2025-08-17T10:45:05.206670 application/epub+zip 469942 2025-08-17T10:45:12.707671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 441244 2025-08-17T10:45:09.114647 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278678 2022-09-19T16:02:11.517932 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304238 2025-08-17T10:45:04.148666 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 284119 2024-10-23T16:36:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17097 2025-08-17T10:45:12.842621 application/rdf+xml 10061 2025-08-17T10:45:05.301653 image/jpeg 2026 2025-08-17T10:45:05.254657 image/jpeg 409224 2025-08-17T10:45:04.865718 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia