Słowa kluczowe: Jewish novel, antisemitism, Polish-Jewish relations, mixed marriages, Litvaks, 19th century, Yitskhok Leybush Peretz, Isaac Leib Peretz, Mikhail Bakhtin, carnival, Jewish modernism, Jewish immigrants, London Jewry, East End, imperialism, race discourse, poverty, dirtiness, autobiography, Jewish female students, daughters, Jewish childhood, home schooling, Karaites in Vilnius, Karaite identity, Turkic origins, Israelites, immigrant narrative genre, adaptation, Jewish-American literature, Chinese-American literature, immigrant women