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Anzia Yezierska
Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective…
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Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York from Poland. Her father is…
Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City…
A vivid portrait of immigrant life in turn-of-the-century New York, Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories that explores the hopes, fears, and struggles of Jewish families as they…
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These ten short stories record the tragedies and triumphs of life for a Jewish immigrant woman, growing up in poverty on New York’s Lower East Side at the beginning of…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggars scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierskas most devastating works of social…
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A gritty portrait of life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1900s. Sonya Vrunsky is poor but smart and when she is sent to…
The autobiography of the important Jewish immigrant novelist.
A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Anzia Yezierska’s America and I, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
An indispensable volume of immigrant literature.
In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her stories and novels, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the Jews…
"First published in the United States of America by Doubleday & Co., 1925"--Title page verso.
A rediscovered novel by Anzia Yezierska, author of Bread Givers, a modern classic of the Jewish American tradition. The capstone of her work. -Alice Kessler-Harris
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This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an…
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox…
D. Konzett
This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys.
Alan Robert Ginsberg
Probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the…
Marianne Schuz,Marianne Scheuz
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Heidelberg, 1991.
Irene Billeter Sauter
By analyzing exterior and interior city representations in Wharton’s and Yezierska’s New York literature, the author shows how urban space greatly affects, influences and alters questions of identity, assimilation, acculturation…
In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her stories, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the lives of the…
