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From:College Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAnzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1925), Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth (1929), and Alexander Saxton's The Great Midland (1948) each feature a strong-willed, independent, fiercely intelligent working-class female...
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From: Anzia Yezierska[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Schoen presents a thematic overview of the stories in Hungry Hearts, including a discussion of autobiographical elements in them.] The stories and narrative essays included in...
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From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT I argue that Bread Givers and the broader body of Anzia Yezierska's writing gather a strong and persistent critique of how American education reinforces social stratifications, rather than engaging the lived...
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From: American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Gelfant considers how Yezierska employed the figure of Hanneh Breineh, a colorful and "volatile" character that appears in a number of her short stories, "to dramatize--or more...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall 1991-1992) In the following essay, Wilentz studies Yezierska's novel Bread Givers, focusing on its treatment of "the dilemma of the Jewish immigrant woman" in America, "whose freedom from the rigid...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe American public was saturated with anti-immigrant rhetoric during the 1920s. (1) Anzia Yezierska's novel Bread Givers (1925), written one year after the passing of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, is often read...
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From: Midstream[(essay date September-October 2003) In the following essay, Charyn states that the lasting legacy of The Adventures of Augie March is the novel's profound influence on generations of Jewish American writers and...
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From: Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Koritz discusses Yezierska's ambivalence over assimilation--particularly her fear that achieving American "success" would mean distancing herself from her roots--and the ways in...
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From: The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a Niche[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Japtok focuses on the conflict between individualism and communalism in Yezierska's Bread Givers, arguing that the novel "is locked in a dialectical struggle with the notion of...
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From: Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society--"Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl"?[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Alter examines the theme of assimilation in Yezierska's work, especially as it concerns her Jewish immigrant heroines and their ambivalent feelings toward heterosexual love as...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Stone maintains that the female Jewish "voice" in Yezierska's fiction had a profound influence on the works of later Jewish-American women writers, in particular Grace...
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From: MELUS[(essay date summer 1996) In the following essay, Shapiro examines Yezierska's treatment of the theme of "the Jewish woman and shaygets"--the love affair between "a poor immigrant Jewish woman" and "a prominent,...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring her 1923 trip to Europe, Anzia Yezierska made the appointed rounds of any serious American author of the early 1920s. According to her daughter and biographer, Louise Levitas Henriksen, Yezierska sought out...
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From: Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Miller notes how female/male roles and relationships became problematized as part of the witty, intellectual aesthetic of the Algonquin circle. She also discusses Dorothy...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Levinson compares Yezierska's depictions of her Jewish female characters' attempts to assimilate into the dominant culture in America to the so-called "passing" narratives of...
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From: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Pavletich contends that in her short stories Yezierska places "a rhetorical emphasis" on her characters' "affective natures" and "manipulates the figure of the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEver since the rediscovery and celebration of Anzia Yezierska's masterpiece Bread Givers in the early 1970s, scholars have struggled with the question of how to read her work. The struggle has assumed the form of a...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Sachs notes the significance of finster gelichter, or "bitter humor," in Yezierska's fiction, focusing especially on the character of Hanneh Breineh from the stories "My Own...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date March 2003) In the following essay, Pascual investigates the metaphorical significance of the word "hunger" in Yezierska's fiction, claiming that the author wrote "to appease the pain of hunger of her ghetto...
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From:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAnzia Yezierska achieved recognition early in her literary career with her vivid protrayals of immigrant Jewish life and posthumously as the mother of Jewish feminism. She produced her most successful works in the 1920s...