explores the hopes, fears, and struggles of Jewish families as they navigate the challenges of the American Dream. Yezierska’s...... more

explores the hopes, fears, and struggles of Jewish families as they navigate the challenges of the American Dream. Yezierska’s...... more

A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the Lower East Side who dares to cha... more

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-y... more

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manha... more

In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska portrays the immigrant’s struggle to become a "real...... more

charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska’s most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the...... more

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manha... more

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manha... more

mothers, daughters, and sisters as they attempt to find places in the New World. During her early childhood, Anzia Yezierska...... more

Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970) was a novelist born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to New York City. She ran away to...... more

Here is Anzia Yezierska s life story, from the Polish ghetto to the sweatshops of New York s Lower East Side, from...... more

Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history pa... more

novel also reflects Yezierska’s own doomed romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Passionate and engagingly sardonic...... more