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1) Bread Givers
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First published in 1925, Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers" is the tale of a young Jewish-American immigrant woman and her struggle to control her own destiny in Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. The novel is based in large part on Yezierska's own life experiences immigrating from Poland as a child and growing up in New York City in an Orthodox Jewish family. "Bread Givers" centers on the story of its main character, Sara Smolinsky,...
2) The Miracle
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A Jewish girl travels to America to find love but finds hardship and loneliness.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
4) Wings
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Shenah Peshah a young lonely janitress living a painfully secluded life in poverty. She is, given hope when she meets a young sociologist who moves into her building to study the people he writes about and she falls in love with him.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning...
5) Hunger
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A sequel to 'Wings', Peshah gets a job at a shirtwaist factory where one of the workers falls in love with her.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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A young writer finds inspiration and purpose in the suffering of her brethren.-22.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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A mother dances on the edge of self-destruction, when she paints her kitchen white for her son returning home from the military, but has her rent raised by her cruel landlord, as a response.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly...
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A mother goes from poverty to wealth, expecting happiness but only finding a cruel Catch-22.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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Poverty separates a happy couple forever, marking their lives as lifestyles separate them.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
10) Soap and Water
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A student is, denied her diploma because of her unsightly appearance due to her grueling life going to school and supporting herself in grinding poverty, making her rebel against the divisions of class.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly...
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A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty.
Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women.
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