Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wilder Publications, Inc., 2020
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781515448549 (electronic bk.) MWT13767446, 1515448541 (electronic bk.) 13767446
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her stories provide insight into the meaning of liberation for immigrants-particularly Jewish immigrant women
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