Synopses & Reviews
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 struggles of immigrant Jews--particularly women--on New York's Lower East Side.
Synopsis
The Jewish immigrant experience in all its joy and pain has been captured beautifully in Yezierska's work.... Her stories capture the passionate struggle of the human spirit.All the stories are rich with a primitive energy that rises with volcanic force.Groping, impassioned, incandescent, Yezierska's nakedly honest stories of Jewish immigrants on New York City's Lower East Side have universal appeal.
Synopsis
An indispensable volume of immigrant literature.
About the Author
Anzia Yezierska was born in about 1880 in a village in Russian Poland, and immigrated to New York City 1890s. She is the author of a memoir, several short story collections, and many novels. She died in 1970.