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 br...

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 twenti...

The middle class ... is a source of tremendous ambivalence from a working-class perspective. Middle-class status is highly desirable for its greater material affluence and security, but undesirable for all the ways in which its patterns are culturally "other," and for the ways...

About this time every year, investment banker Herb Allen holds his big media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Some 100 Bigs arrived last Monday for a few days of horseback riding, whitewater rafting, and schmoozing. Remember when Warren Buffett brokered the sale of...

This is a "cause-effect" essay on Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska It is set in New York's Lower East Side, around the 1920s and is the story of a young Jewish girl, Sara, and her family, whom have immigrated from Poland. Sara and the other four women in her family struggle under the oppression of their father. Moisheh, the father, is a Jewish scholar who spends his days studying the Torah rather than supporting his family.