Assimilation and Modernity-A Case Study of Abraham Cahan’s“The Imported Bridegroom”

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In the modern era, the Jewish-Americans were faced with challenges because of the assimilation and modernity envi?ronment in the US, and as a result, many of them were in a double bind—to be an assimilated American citizen or to be a tradi?tional Jew. With his work“The Imported Bridegroom”, Abraham Cahan contemplated on the subject of Jewish immigration and assimilation and he made a ground-breaking contribution to the establishment of American modernity. This paper intends to ana?lyze Cahan’s attitudes towards assimilation and modernity and how he builds up modernity for all of the Americans. Three char?acters in“The Imported Bridegroom”, who stand for three prototypes of modern Jewish-Americans confronting the overwhelm?ing flood of assimilation and the duty for retaining their traditions, will be analyzed. Through the composition of this work, Cah?an tried to spread the Jewish culture on the one hand, and on the other, he warned the peripheral that it was difficult to be assimi?lated without disasters even if they had made contribution to the formation of modernity.
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