Bread givers : a novel : a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New / by Anzia Yezierska ; with an introduction by Alice Kessler Harris.

By: Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970 [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English New York : Persea Books, 1975©1925 Description: xviii, 297 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0892550147 (paperback)Subject(s): Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Children of immigrants -- Fiction | Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction | Jewish families -- Fiction | Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- FictionLOC classification: PS3547.E95 B7 1975
Contents:
Introduction / Alice Kessler Harris -- Hester street: Hester street -- Speaking mouth of the block -- Burden bearer -- "Empty-head" -- Morris Lipkin writes poetry -- Burden bearer changes her burden -- Father becomes a business man in America -- Hard heart -- Bread givers -- Between two worlds: I shut the door -- Piece of meat -- My sisters and I -- Outcast -- Man wanted me -- On and on-alone -- College -- New world: My honeymoon with myself -- Death in Hester street -- Lodge money -- Hugo Seelig -- Man born of woman.
Summary: The life story of Anzia Yezierska and her struggle as a Jewish immigrant woman.Summary: This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood.
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Reprint of the 1925 ed. published by Doubleday, Page, Garden City, N.Y.

Introduction / Alice Kessler Harris -- Hester street: Hester street -- Speaking mouth of the block -- Burden bearer -- "Empty-head" -- Morris Lipkin writes poetry -- Burden bearer changes her burden -- Father becomes a business man in America -- Hard heart -- Bread givers -- Between two worlds: I shut the door -- Piece of meat -- My sisters and I -- Outcast -- Man wanted me -- On and on-alone -- College -- New world: My honeymoon with myself -- Death in Hester street -- Lodge money -- Hugo Seelig -- Man born of woman.

The life story of Anzia Yezierska and her struggle as a Jewish immigrant woman.

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood.