Over a career of more than fifty years Anzia Yezierska was a prominent part of the vanguard in the literary treatment of the immigrant experience. As she stated in stories, essays, and interviews, Yezierska felt her mission as a writer was to "build a...

Anzia Yezierska, novelist and short-story writer, belonged to that generation of Jewish immigrant authors who wrote about the Jewish migration from the pogrom-ridden Eastern European shtetl to the cities of America in the late nineteenth and early...

Anzia Yezierska achieved recognition early in her literary career with her vivid protrayals of immigrant Jewish life and posthumously as the mother of Jewish feminism. She produced her most successful works in the 1920s although popularity soon waned due to repetitious themes and excessive...

From mediaeval saints to modern anorectics, starvation has been a pretext and a stimulant for literature. This essay focusses on Anzia Yezierska's obsession with hunger, which was greedily charged with cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic valences. Yezierska wrote to keep her feeling of hunger...