Salome of the Tenements (novel)

Salome of the Tenements is a 1923 novel by Jewish-American writer Anzia Yezierska. The story follows a young Jewish immigrant woman living in New York City who wishes to marry a wealthy Protestant and escape the confines of her lower-class upbringing.

Yezierska drew inspiration for the novel from the life of her friend Rose Pastor Stokes whose celebrated marriage to millionaire philanthropist J. G. Phelps Stokes was a New York "Cinderella" story in the early 20th century. Yezierska herself had a brief romance with the renowned American educator John Dewey that paralleled certain elements in the novel. Salome of the Tenements was published by Boni & Liveright and was adapted into a silent film of the same name in 1925.