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xiv, 218 pages ; 20 cm. |
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Penguin classics.
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| Summary |
"The youngest of four daughters in a family that left Poland in the 1920s for the crowded tenements of New York City's Lower East Side, Sara Smolinsky has seen her sisters resign themselves under their rabbi father's iron fist to loveless marriages and empty futures. They are bread givers, working to feed the family while their father studies the Torah--according to which, as their father reminds them, a woman without her father or husband is less than nothing. But Sarah hungers for more and in defiance of her father she breaks free and escapes home to see what the American dream holds for her in this poignant coming-of-age tale and striking portrait of feminist rebellion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Notes |
First published in the United States of America by Doubleday & Co., 1925. |
| Subjects |
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction.
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Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Women immigrants -- Fiction.
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Jewish families -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Jews -- Fiction.
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Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Novels.
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| Other Author |
Feldman, Deborah, 1986- writer of foreword.
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| Related To |
Online version: Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970. Bread givers [New York] : Penguin Books, 2023 9780593511831 (DLC) 2022057212 |
| ISBN |
9780143137719 (paperback) |
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