Bread Givers: A Novel : a Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New

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Persea Books, 1975 - Fiction - 297 pages
This 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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THE SPEAKING MOUTH OF THE BLOCK
24
THE BURDEN BEARER
35
THE EMPTYHEAD
53
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