Anzia Yezierska

• Oct-1991
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An indispensable volume of immigrant literature. Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the...

• Oct-1993
• / General Fiction
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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 Jews of New York's Lower East Side. The Open Cage collects sixteen of her bes...

• Feb-1996
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The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar’s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska’s most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortune...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar’s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska’s most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortune...

• Dec-1996
• / General Fiction
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In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska portrays the immigrant's struggle to become a "real" American, in such stories as "Yekl," "Hunger," "The Fat of the Land," and "How I Found America." Set mostly in New York's Lower East Si...

• Jan-2003
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The classic novel of Jewish immigrants, with period photographs. 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 Orthodox rabb...

• Jan-2011
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Anzia Yezierska (c.1880-1970) was born in Poland, emigrating to the United States in 1890. All I Could Ever Be is a semi-autobiographical account of a young Polish woman emigrating to the United States and becoming a successful writer....

• Jan-2021
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Rediscovered: a Jewish American classic. A young Polish Jew transforms herself from shirt factory worker on the Lower East Side to successful author living in a quiet New England village. An insightful, deeply felt novel presaging the assimilation...

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Salome is a gritty portrait of life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1900s. Wealthy philanthropists devoted to the settlement house movement make plans to eradicate poverty and to erase the more unsettling signs of foreigness ...