The Rise of David Levinsky

Résumé : 'The Rise of David Levinsky immediately engaged a readership far beyond the streets of the Lower East Side in New York. The struggle for success, the challenges of building a new life while your heart lives in another continent, and the support as well as distrust that existed within the Jewish immigrant community were all laid out for everyone—immigrant and American alike. In this way, America began to learn how a land of opportunity could also feel like a land of lost souls. (Susan Kittner Huntting)