The Denver Jewish news., 1921-01-12
Heart, Soul and World
Sadness
SECOND ARTICLE On JEWISH
TYPES IN AMERICAN FICTION.

tpSt nf Ftsyl, itrls, ne
fiction writin. In En,,;s, ha,ongs in
flo I,st dac,do ,f tho ninat.ou,h con
t,,,.v u,bo ovoroca Iou.;Sn ,,,., man
v;tb :, orar;po fo, so,f.nra.s;ou
had then s,ant ohout 70, roors &, tho
Eo,y World w;ther ho o,,,,, :, ,or
,,.,oe from, tho ,o.ronS ana ,,thor now.
.cutions ,f tho o,rIy o;ob,i.S ror
wears w.os ,hout sufficient fo, fbe
vould -ho writar to p.f his ha,r in.l .,na
m,ster tha nav id;om wal, o,ony, m
vo,,t,uo oxnrassir. his i,,,.rnost soul
and b.,rt in If
Satur,lyv not all n, tHesa iumi-
grants wrote in the Io,yuo,e ,,s- their
country and flor, WINS a a.en nsvchoI.
opi,,j reason for If These ,ntbors
c., bo rouebIv suhdiv,o.d into ,wo
classes There were tho ,Jea,;sts wbo
came bere pot g, mucb bac,us.. of tb.
danresseJ .con,nic conditions IN, tho
other side but rather ID, voicc :, nro-
t,st ,r,inst fin. reoctio,arv nolic;es
of the Fast. Euronean ,.ov.,,,ncn. *
IL, tboso o,hers who or,;ds, IN. noy-
,r,v aud .snuo,or of thai, n,tiv. M.
Ile towns would nrohohIv newer have
fo,nd thei,, ,v,v ne writers VI,,s.
latter nm arrival I'm Am,ric, found
themselves Iocl;inp in en,cation and
werc therefore not nuite so ombitious
to write in English and turned m yid-
dish ,s their mcdium If IL true tbo.
,nit,. =, number of rho first ,nteporv
also round This ..the easiest w,y y
After all the change from f,,e Rms
sim mr. Tho Roumapian tn tho yiddisb
was not 81 ,,ifficu,t for nj ,uv ,nte
the usychoiorv of tbeir nro.nectiyc
readers tho Jewish ;mmipuut classes
wus uot unfamiliar In tbcm
few bow.vcr had hipbcr umbi
,ious--thev w,u,eJ IA, snenL In Amer.
ic,ns IN, tbc l,ppuasc of America
,,,hcv w,utcd Tn hc hoard I,v n,cir new
tc,,oy.,;t;xrps. t,,ev wanted IN Tell
,b,n, of tbo;r suff,riros. tbov Desired
IN revcol the soul of tbe Jewish inmi-
,,,.op+ Tn t,o former seekers of tl,e
cou,try
Did tJ,ev succccds
IrufortupotoIv tbe answer mist he.
mn T,,,e .vnrv bor. md ,bere :,
yoicc of onprovol was heard hut their
realistic. motbod , heritage from
nuss;.n ,ioer,t,,rc f,iIed tn min thc
characterization of III, ,roro,. american
rc,dor Americ, of tle nine,ics wus.
,,poric,, ,f tbe scarlet J.tter,,-wl,u,
rho rn,der wa,ted was IA Inc cntertnin-
Oh aud rorbiny also II, had no
p,t;onco with the funny mtIandisb
t,,,,,s or ;,,r,icr,,ts ,,ovel,;n,, some.
,yborc i, tbe mvsteriops bn,mts of the
.nlr-C.cltic. lalf-OricntaI East Side.
And vet. these were not merely
stories or novels. bit cries- OF meil.nl
anguish, of spiritual suffering. of being
misunderstood. The new. authors
poured out their soul. their hearts,
tInir tears of Wcltschni, that I'M
tI,,nsIatabIc term which could perhaps
Lthc years spent in an atmosphere diff
fcient from their surroundings in
t.uropc. IN the hard grind of the sweat
shop. in manual labor about which
they had been accustomed to theoriZe
but which proved not at all as sacred
and cdifying as their leaders would
have it In the sweatshops. obese i'll
lcllectuaIs formed n homeless minority
,n,I ,yor, .,tSst,ntl,, p,ncEnd ..cntfpi
Mt and mimicsed by their fellow work
ers WHO took advantage of their
numerical superiority TO make life mis-
cradle for those whom they, the UNI
lcrfops of che Old World. would not
have dared TO accost in Europe.