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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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