Anzia Yezierska

Bread Givers is a 1925 novel by United States author Anzia Yezierska; it tells the story of a girl growing up in an immigrant Jewish household in New York City. Her parents are from Poland in the Russian Empire.

Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in …