Bread Givers: A Novel : a Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the NewThis 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. |
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Page 42
... chair with a cushion to sit on . Then Bessie came out , her eyes burning out of her head , her cheeks redder than Mashah's , and her right arm held to the side , like pasted there , to cover up where she pinned herself together . She ...
... chair with a cushion to sit on . Then Bessie came out , her eyes burning out of her head , her cheeks redder than Mashah's , and her right arm held to the side , like pasted there , to cover up where she pinned herself together . She ...
Page 73
... chairs for every one . And then he deliberately took Lipkin's chair away from the window where Lipkin was still standing and pulled it up to the table ; and Father sat himself down in it , with his back toward Lipkin . Through our half ...
... chairs for every one . And then he deliberately took Lipkin's chair away from the window where Lipkin was still standing and pulled it up to the table ; and Father sat himself down in it , with his back toward Lipkin . Through our half ...
Page 99
... chair with a back and a cushion to sit on , and began dusting it with her new blue - checked apron . " Here's our best chair ! My Rockefeller prince ! Do us the honour to sit yourself down on it . " Father and Mother kept touching ...
... chair with a back and a cushion to sit on , and began dusting it with her new blue - checked apron . " Here's our best chair ! My Rockefeller prince ! Do us the honour to sit yourself down on it . " Father and Mother kept touching ...
Contents
THE SPEAKING MOUTH OF THE BLOCK | 24 |
THE BURDEN BEARER | 35 |
THE EMPTYHEAD | 53 |
Copyright | |
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ALICE KESSLER America Anzia Yezierska asked bargain beautiful began begged Berel Bernstein Bessie Bessie's better Bread Givers breath cash box cents chair clothes cook cried daughter diamonds dirt dollars door dowry dream dress empty excited eyes face Fania Father feet felt fish-peddler girls give a look Grand Street hair hand hate head heart Hester Street Holy Torah husband innocent eyes Jacob laughed lionaire live Lower East Side luck married Mashah matchmaker Max Goldstein Moe Mirsky Morris Lipkin Mother never night oilcloth old maid penny poor poverty pushcart pushed rent rich rushed schnorrer shining shook shtetl sisters smile Smolinsky stared stood stopped talking tear tell things thought turned voice waiting walked What's whole wife window woman women worry Yenteh Yezierska young Zalmon
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Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature Kathleen Brogan No preview available - 1998 |
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