num_pages: 538
description: A young Hasidic Jew struggling to master the Talmud seeks his fortune amid the teeming streets of New York's Lower East Side. The energy formerly focused on his religious studies now turns in the direction of rising to the top of the business world, where he discovers the high price of assimilation.
language: English
title: The Rise of David Levinsky
titlecomplete: The Rise of David Levinsky
genres: Fiction, American, Jewish, Literature, Classics, Novels, New York, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Judaism
ratings_count: 637
publisher: Penguin Classics