Thursday, April 5, 2012

Gertrude Studenmeiner the Street Smart Jewish Girl

Street smart and boy crazy Gertrude Studenmeiner is a very poor jewish girl living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Thinking Evelyn Sternheim a stuck up rich girl, she teases the tomboy as "Evelyn My Jewish Princess," which is where the title of the novel derives. She is several years older than Evelyn. Gertrude lives with her jewish mother who is an out of work janitress struggling to get by.

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