pickYezierska‘s stories are exactly what I feel as an American Jew. Reconciling inherited traditions and modern life. Things aren‘t bad or good, merely different. The best road through life is live and let live while honoring your own history and family.
Through her stories I feel more connected with my culture and my immigrant ancestors.
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Day 26: Little Women
It wasn't just my father, but the generations who made my father whose weight was still upon me.
#immigrantfiction #jewish #nyc
And then I told him of the hard heart. How I had to cut out everything soft in my life only to survive.
Not often I read a book with a character I don't like. The father in this book has gotten on my last nerve. #immigrantfiction #nyc
Ms. @JacintaMCarter tagged me for the #bookcolortag and gave me green. I stacked up a few of my green books in my office while I was there getting my laptop. I should probably stick around and do some work since I'm spending next week in Vegas, but I think I'll avoid that until after vacation!
The Jewish immigrant experience in New York: Four daughters who work to support the family like in olden days. Sara, the youngest, becomes fiercely independent, promising herself to fight the Torah: woman is nothing without man.
pick#immigrantsong #rockinmay
Set in 1920s New York, the protagonist, and others in the Lower East Side, face the issues that go along with being an immigrant to this country, but also face issues related to struggling as women to be independent despite their fathers' orthodox Russian Jewish ideas that a woman only exists through a man. "Nobody can stop me, I'm not from the old country. I'm American!"
#PhotoADayNov16 - #readinschool - I really want to reread this book that I read in middle school, since I really liked it. (I went to a Jewish school, so we read quite a bit of #JewLit in addition to stuff like To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn.)
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