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Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature?
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Gold “Mike” to his comrades was a key figure in American letters from the mid-1920s well into the Great Depression. A leading advocate and practitioner of “proletarian literature,” he was also the editor of
New Masses, perhaps the most important left-wing periodical of the 1930s. A committed, vociferous revolutionary, he joined the Communist Party in the 1920s and then stuck with it for life. Neither purges nor pacts nor the 1956 invasion of Hungary would cause Gold to renounce his faith. On the contrary. A columnist for the
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What Walter Lippmann called “the acids of modernity” were at work in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, where heterodox ideas, including socialism and then Bundism and Zionism, eroded traditional orthodoxies. Cahan’s novel is described as “semi-autobiographical,” but uses fictional plot devices such as David’s mother murdered in a pogrom for melodramatic effect.
Abraham Cahan’s real life was dramatic enough. The son of a Hebrew teacher and tavern keeper, Cahan was born in 1860 in a shtetl before his family moved to Vilna. His Hebrew education was disrupted by his passion for Russian language and literature. He also supported the Narodnaya Volya terrorist underground. The pogroms blaming the Jews for the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 precipitated the first mass emigration of Russian Jews to the US. Russian radicals, who taught Cahan that �
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Born in Brooklyn, the son of a successful New York lawyer, Harland was educated at the City College of New York and Harvard Divinity School. He had to hold down a tedious day job while writing fiction at night. He believed that writers who were “old stock” Americans like himself were being ignored in favor of authors of “ethnic fiction.”
His solution: the “Sidney Luska” appellation, which he used in fiction with melodramatic Jewish characters and plots.
Stephanie Foote describes Harland’s literary strategy as “ethnic transvestism.” Harland’s Jewish characters were typically either deeply-learned rabbinic scholars or ruthless exploiters of the marketplace. His female characters sometimes hid their Jewish identities to succeed in “the marriage market.” His plots often preached the era’s social reform ideas.
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