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Bread givers : a novel

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0892552905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780892552900 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxvi, 297 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 3rd ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Persea Books, c2003.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Karen and Michael Braziller book."
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Assimilation (Sociology) Fiction
Children of immigrants Fiction
Fathers and daughters Fiction
Women immigrants Fiction
Jewish families Fiction
Young women Fiction
Domestic fiction
Jewish fiction
Bildungsromans
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Bildungsromans.

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  • 2 out of 2 copies are currently available at Live Oak Public Libraries.

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