Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Elkan Lubliner, Amerikaner
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love dialogue-driven comedy, Jewish New York at the turn of the century, and underdog stories where cleverness and warmth win the day. It suits anyone who enjoys a good argument between old friends.
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Elkan Lubliner, American is a comic novel by Montague Glass, who wrote humorous stories about New York's garment trade in the early twentieth century. It follows a Jewish immigrant boy from Russia who lands on the Lower East Side, goes to work in a cloak and suit factory, and rises to a partnership with the help of his wits, his fists and his kind heart.
The book is built as a string of episodes, each a small comedy of business, family and love. Most of the talk comes from two bickering partners, Marcus Polatkin and Philip Scheikowitz, who shout at each other, scheme behind each other's backs and secretly adore the boy they call their own. Glass gives them a dialect full of Yiddish words, and the jokes land best when you hear them spoken.
In this summary you will meet the boy on the dock at Ellis Island, watch him invent a career as a salesman in a single afternoon, follow a runaway matchmaking plot, and see how he handles rivals, real estate men and a lonely rich buyer. First, the strange arrival that begins it all.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A boy arrives with the wrong nameFree
- 2The true name comes out
- 3A sick cousin becomes a salesman
- 4Two matchmakers and a maid
- 5Chasing high-grade business
- 6The lion, the mouse and the Brooklyn house
- 7Closing day at the lawyer's office
- 8Antique chairs and a creditors' meeting
- 9Brown fish and a seaside courtship
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A boy arrives with the wrong name
The story opens in a showroom where Marcus Polatkin and Philip Scheikowitz are arguing over a letter from Russia. Philip's brother-in-law Borrochson writes that he fears for his life and wants passage money for himself and his son Yosel. Marcus sneers at the idea, since he claims every lazy relative has a rabbi for a grandfather. Philip sends the tickets anyway. He first figures the cost of the trip for two on the back of an envelope, and a thousand dollar order arrives in the mail that same morning.
On the day of arrival the partners go together to Ellis Island, and Marcus spends the trip planning the newcomers' future. Only a fifteen-year-old boy comes through the gate, hauling a huge bundle. He says his father stayed behind in Minsk. Borrochson sold the ticket and spent the money on his wedding to a landlord's widow.
The boy weeps, and both men soften. Philip takes him to buy a gray suit and a hot meal. He teaches him English with a mix of four methods, one of which is a smack on the head, as Marcus once received it.
The boy is soon called Joseph Borrochson. He works for three dollars a week and, within a year, speaks like his employers.
He also saves a hundred dollars and tries to hand it to Philip for his keep. Philip is moved and decides to put the money in the bank with a hundred of his own. That is the first sign of how much these loud men care about him.
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Questions about Elkan Lubliner, Amerikaner
What is Elkan Lubliner, American about?
It follows a young Russian Jewish immigrant who goes to work for two bickering garment makers in New York and rises to become their partner. Each chapter is a comic episode about business, family and romance.
Who is Elkan Lubliner?
He is a boy who comes to America in place of another boy's ticket, takes the name Joseph Borrochson, and later uses his real name. He is quick, honest and loyal, and he grows from cutter to salesman to partner.
Who are Polatkin and Scheikowitz?
They are the partners of the garment firm that takes Elkan in. They argue constantly and scheme against each other, but each secretly treats Elkan as a son, and their quarrels supply much of the humor.
When was Elkan Lubliner, American written, and is it a true story?
It is a work of fiction by Montague Glass, set in the New York garment trade in the early twentieth century. The people are invented, but the businesses, streets and speech come from the author's knowledge of that world.
Is Elkan Lubliner, American easy to read?
The chapters are short comic episodes, and most of the story is lively dialogue. Yiddish words are easy to follow from context, so the jokes and quarrels carry the reader along.