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- Salom_Rizk abstract "Salom Rizk (a.k.a. Sam Risk, born 15 December 1908 in Ottoman Syria, died 22 October 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was a Syrian-American author, best known for his 1943 immigrant autobiography, Syrian Yankee, perhaps the best-known piece of Arab American literature in the middle part of the century. The book has been called \"a classic of the immigrant biography genre\", especially for the way Rizk's story portrays the American Dream and the virtues of cultural assimilation at the expense of his home country, which he finds loathsome when he returns for a visit. Rizk became well-known enough that Reader's Digest sponsored him on a lecture tour around the United States as \"the quintessential American immigrant\". He also sponsored a drive for the Save the Children Federation, using advertisements in such magazines as Boys' Life to request families send their extra pencils, so that these could be donated to needy school-children around the world as a way of promoting freedom and democracy and fighting tyranny.".
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- Salom_Rizk deathDate "1973-10-22".
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- Salom_Rizk pseudonym "Sam Risk, Solomon Rizk".
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- Salom_Rizk wikiPageWikiLinkText "Salom Rizk".
- Salom_Rizk birthDate "1908-12-15".
- Salom_Rizk birthPlace "Ottoman Syria".
- Salom_Rizk citizenship "USA".
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- Salom_Rizk ethnicity "Arab".
- Salom_Rizk genre "autobiography".
- Salom_Rizk language "English".
- Salom_Rizk name "Rizk, Salom".
- Salom_Rizk name "Salom Risk".
- Salom_Rizk nationality "Syrian, American".
- Salom_Rizk notableworks "Syrian Yankee".
- Salom_Rizk occupation "author, lecturer".
- Salom_Rizk placeOfBirth "Ottoman Syria".
- Salom_Rizk placeOfDeath "Silver Spring, Maryland".
- Salom_Rizk pseudonym "Sam Risk, Solomon Rizk".
- Salom_Rizk shortDescription "Syrian writer".
- Salom_Rizk subject "immigrant life, assimilation".
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- Salom_Rizk description "Syrian writer".
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- Salom_Rizk comment "Salom Rizk (a.k.a. Sam Risk, born 15 December 1908 in Ottoman Syria, died 22 October 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was a Syrian-American author, best known for his 1943 immigrant autobiography, Syrian Yankee, perhaps the best-known piece of Arab American literature in the middle part of the century.".
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