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Bread givers : a novel
Title:
Bread givers : a novel
Author:
Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970.
Edition:
Third edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Persea Books, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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. Photos.
General Note:
"A Karen and Michael Braziller book."
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780892552900
Format :
Book