Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her …

Essayist, novelist, writer, and literary critic Anzia Yezierska turned the frustrations and indignities she suffered in New York’s tenements into novels and short stories that depicted the …

Anzia Yezierska was one of more than two million Eastern European Jews who arrived in the United States during a major wave of Jewish immigration from 1880 to 1924, seeking …

2023年5月12日 · Maia Silber on “Bread Givers,” a 1925 novel by Anzia Yezierska, who often wrote about Jewish immigrant women who rose out of poverty.

2021年2月26日 · Anzia Yezierska’s literary texts have generated increasing scholarly interest over the past few decades. This is true not only within Jewish American studies, where students are …

2024年5月3日 · Today, we spotlight Russian-American novelist Anzia Yezierska In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, we are recognizing the economic, cultural, political, and …

In the course of a career that spanned more than fifty years, Anzia Yezierska recorded Eastern European women immigrants’ struggles to find a place for themselves both within their …

Anzia Yezierska was one of the millions to leave Eastern Europe in search of a better life, departing Poland at the age of 15 along with her family and coming to New York in 1898.

American-Jewish novelist whose fiction preserves the spirit, suffering and generational strife of immigrant families on New York 's Lower East Side. Name variations: Anzia Mayer Gordon …

YEZIERSKA, Anzia. Born circa 1880, Plinsk, Russian Poland; died 21 November 1970, Ontario, California. Daughter of Baruch and Pearl Yezierska; married Jacob Gordon, 1910; Arnold …