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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
allying point for the best intellectual forces the Jewish immigrants had in America. Names now illustrious in Yiddish literature-Abraham Cahan, Philip Krantz, David Pinski, Z. Libin, L. Kobrin, B. Gorin, Morris Rosenfeld, and others — are intimately connected with the history of the Arbeiter Zeitung and later with the daily Abend of melodramas made to order. Even in his problem plays the melodramatic elements prevail. The standards of the Yiddish stage in America have not permitted David Pinski (born in Russia in 1873) to attain the distinction that is due him as a playwright. He is known among the Gentile lovers of the drama better than among his ow His characters, too, are broad and significant. His dynamic quality reveals itself in the themes he essays as well as in his characters. Clash and struggle are Pinski's elements. The conflict of social forces is best brought out in his Isaac Sheftel, an Arbeiter drama; and his Familie Zwi, Tragedie vun dem einzigen Yidden reve
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
80 Philosophical and practical grammar of the English language, 446 Philosophical Review, 239, 249 n. Philosophy of History, 229 n. Philosophy of Mathematics, 229 n. Philosophy of mysterious agents, 526 Philosophy of wealth, 442 Pictorial Dictionary (Webster), 477, 478 Pierce, J. D., 409 Pietro Ghisleri, 88 Pig in the parlour, 516 Pike, Albert B., 496 Pike, J. S., 352 Pike, Nicholas, 401, 541 Pike County ballads, 53 Pindar, 466 Pinero, 279, 293 Pinski, David, 600, 609 Pioneer life, or thirty years a hunter, 154 Pioneers of France in the New World, the, 190 Piper, the, 290, 291 Pipes of Pan, the, 292 Pique, 271 Piscatory eclogues, 446 Pit, the, 93 Pitkin, W. B., 264 Plain and comprehensive grammar (Webster), 475 Phoenix, John, 7 Physical geology of the Grand Canyon district, 159 Physical Observations in the Arctic Seas, 167 Physics and politics, 181 Piatt, John James, 59 Piatt, Sarah Morgan, 59 Picayun