Jews Without Money

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Jews Without Money is a semi-autobiographical proletarian novel by Michael Gold depicting the harsh lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side in the early 20th century.

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instanceOf novel
proletarian novel
associatedWith American left-wing literature
Jewish American literature
author Michael Gold NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsCommunity Eastern European Jewish immigrants
genre autobiographical fiction
proletarian literature
social realist fiction
hasAutobiographicalBasisIn life of Michael Gold
hasCriticalReception considered a classic of American radical literature
hasTheme class struggle
critique of capitalism
ethnic identity
exploitation of labor
family hardship
search for dignity
hasTone grim
politically militant
influencedBy Marxism NERFINISHED
communist ideology
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement proletarian literature movement
social realism
mainCharacter Mike NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor depiction of Jewish immigrant poverty in New York
role in American proletarian literature
originalPublicationYear 1930
placeInAuthorCareer major work of Michael Gold
portrays small-scale sweatshop labor
street life of children
tenement life
publisher Horace Liveright NERFINISHED
settingCity New York City NERFINISHED
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Lower East Side, Manhattan NERFINISHED
settingPeriod early 20th century
subjectMatter Jewish immigrant life
anti-capitalism
childhood in poverty
poverty
urban slums
working-class struggle
targetAudience adult readers

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Michael Gold notableWork Jews Without Money