The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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| Birth: | 1885 |
| Death: | 1970 |
| Nationality: | American, Polish |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist |
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Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Maly Plock, Poland, then in the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States, and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Yezierska wrote about the struggles of Jewish and later Puerto Rican immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. In her fifty-year writing career, she explored 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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