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Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York Reprint of the American Institute"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." William Dean Howells Yekl (1896), the novel upon which the highly successful film Hester Street was based, was written by Abraham Cahan, editor of the prestigious Jewish Daily Forward for half a century. It is