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Yekl

A Tale of the New York Ghetto


By

A. Cahan


New York
D. Appleton and Company
1896

COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER                                    PAGE


   I.--JAKE AND YEKL                          1

  II.--THE NEW YORK GHETTO                   25

 III.--IN THE GRIP OF HIS PAST               50

  IV.--THE MEETING                           70

   V.--A PATERFAMILIAS                       82

  VI.--CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES            112

 VII.--MRS. KAVARSKY'S COUP D'ETAT          136

VIII.--A