Hungry Hearts : Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience (Paperback)

from rocketjk

Anzia Yezierska was a very well known writer about the Jewish immigrant experience in the early part of the 20th Century, to the extent that her stories were made into movies. Hungry Hearts is a collection of her short stories which are mostly variations on a theme: a young Jewish girl in Russia ...

from suesbooks

The writing was quite simple, but it gave an excellent picture of the life of immigrants to this country in the 1920's. It provided much for me to think about, and I wonder whether immigrants have it much better today. The book is comprised of short stories, all of which I found interesting. Yezi...

from starbox

Published in 1920, this is a collection of short stories set among the Jewish immigrant community of Manhattan's Lower East Side. The privations and the struggle to survive are paramount- poverty, wage cuts, long days slaving in a factory, the authoritarian and judgemental public assistance ladie...