David Levinsky arrived in America in 1885 with four cents in his pocket and is now worth more than two million dollars in the cloak-and-suit trade, yet he feels he is the same lonely man inside. He looks back on his boyhood of Talmud study in Russia, his mother’s death, the Lower East Side, sweatshops, unions, and the loves he lost on the way up.
A landmark of Jewish American fiction of 1917, for anyone interested in immigration and the price of success. Download the free EPUB.