Anzia Yezierska’s Novel, Bread Givers

At the end of Anzia Yezierska 's 1925 Novel "Bread Givers", Sara Smolinsky noticed her violent behavior of her father was a product of several generations of tradition that he could not escape. She is enthusiastic about accepting a new world just winning her position, but she will try to reconcile with her father and her Jewish tradition. The novel is about the tension inherent in trying to bring the old world together with the new world. Lebec tries to integrate his old world into the new world, and Sara tries to integrate her new world into the old world.

A Jewish American writer Anzia Yezierska wrote a novel "Bread Givers" (1925) exploring topics such as Russian Jewish immigrants in the early twentieth century, tension between old and new Italian culture, and women's immigration experience. A famous writer, Yerzyskar, focused on the Jewish struggle to escape the slums and enter the middle class of the United States. In the novel, the heroine Saras Morinsky escaped the "city slums" of New York City by breaking the tradition. She quit her family shop job and soon began to engage in wealthy real estate tycoons. She graduated from college and has held senior positions at public schools. At last Sarah has recovered relations with family and religion.

Bread Givers (1925) Anzia Yezierska Persea Books, 1999 ISBN 0-89255-014-7 $ 9.95 Commentary on classic contributions to immigration novel types, Bread Givers is a poor young Jewish New York low poor young Jewish The girl's story This community is known by the progressive photographer Jacob Riis under the name "The Other Half of Life". This novel is an excellent text for American history students as it brings themes of immigrants, poverty and progressive living which are very important for understanding the early 20th century. Pan donors were written by Anzya Yezierska, immigrated with the families of the villages of Russia and Poland in the 1890s and trained as a writer by progressive educator John Dewey. The main character Saras Molinsky is a fighting girl and under the pressure of her tyranny father she saw each sister enter a repressive marriage.

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