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Bread Givers (Revised)
Bread Givers (Revised) | Anzia Yezierska
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This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all can share. Beautifully redesigned page for page with the previous editions, Bread Givers is an essential historical work with enduring relevance.
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#HumbleHarvest #Bread

An oldie from my college days. I think it was a good read 🤷🏻‍♀️

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🥖📚🍞 4mo
Eggs Love B&W pic! 🖤🥖🤍 4mo
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#FestiveFilms @Klou
Day 26: Little Women

Bookwormjillk Love this book 3y
Klou Great pick! 3y
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It wasn't just my father, but the generations who made my father whose weight was still upon me.
#immigrantfiction #jewish #nyc

RaimeyGallant And who are still voting... (that's how I feel, not sure about the context in the book, but great quote!) #NYClove 7y
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And then I told him of the hard heart. How I had to cut out everything soft in my life only to survive.

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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

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Hollie
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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!

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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.

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Hollie
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#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!"

Cinfhen My grandfather came from Poland in 1939 and settled in the Lower East Side of NY until 2002! I'm very familiar with that area...must read for me 😀thanks so much for posting 😍😍😍 7y
Hollie @Cinfhen I'll bet your grandfather had incredible stories to tell! The author (and main character) are from Poland in this story...I think you'll love it! 7y
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#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.)