A determined young woman challenges her Jewish immigrant family's rigid norms in this striking, c...

In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her ...

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Ma...

Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history...

Fanya, a young Polish Jew, living and working on the Lower East Side, attends a lecture by a famo...

In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska portrays the immigrant's struggle t...

Here is Anzia Yezierska's life story, from the Polish ghetto to the sweatshops of New York's Lowe...

In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her ...

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Ma...

A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.

A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the Lower East Side who dares to ...