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User Review - knotbox - LibraryThingQuick read, enjoyable story, despite their hardships, giving insights to the changes not only immigrants but all people were facing in the inter-war period. Good perspective of the city, especially life on the lower-east side. Read full review
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User Review - Clancy.Coonradt - LibraryThingVery powerful book giving a great insight into the hardships women have faced in history, and how the family unit itself can be one of the main forces hindering the progress of women's rights. Read full review
Contents
CHAPTER tJUOt | 3 |
The Speaking Mouth of the Block | 24 |
The Burden Bearer Changes Her Bur | 89 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Bread givers: a novel : a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New Venture book |
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | G. Braziller, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 20, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0807607797, 9780807607794 |
| Length | 297 pages |
| Subjects | › Assimilation (Sociology) Children of immigrants Fathers and daughters Fiction / General Jewish families Jews Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Women immigrants Young women |
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