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Chapter 7: Anzia
Yezierska (1881?-1970)
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Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970)
was born in a mud hut in the village of Pinsk to Jewish parents
living in poverty near the border between Russia and Poland. At
fifteen she emigrated with her family to New York City, where she
worked in a sweatshop while she studied English at night school.
After three years she was granted a scholarship at Columbia
University to train as a domestic-science teacher. In 1910 she was
briefly married to an attorney, and then she married a teacher.
Yezierska gave birth to a daughter, but she found life as a wife and
mother so oppressive that she gave up her child to her husband's
care. For the rest of her life she devoted herself to her career as a
writer. - Bedford
Primary
Works
Hungry
Hearts, 1920 (stories); Salome of the Tenements, 1922;
Children of Loneliness, 1923 (stories); Bread
Givers, 1925; Arrogant Beggar, 1927; All I Could
Never Be, 1932; Red Ribbon on a White Horse, 1950
(autobiographical).
Bread givers: a
novel: a struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter
of the New. with an introd. by Alice Kessler Harris. NY: G.
Braziller, 1975 1925. PS3547 E95 B7
The open cage: an
Anzia Yezierska collection. selected and with an introd. by
Alice Kessler-Harris ; afterword by Louise Levitas Henriksen. NY:
Persea Books, 1979. PS3547.E95 O6
Hungry hearts and
other stories. NY: Persea Books, 1985. PS3547 .E95 H8
Salome of the
tenements. introduction by Gay Wilentz. Urbana: U of Illinois
P, 1995. PS3547 .E95 S35
Arrogant Beggar.
Stubbs, Katherine (introd.). Durham: Duke UP, 1996.
Selected
Bibliography 1980-Present
Champion, Laurie. ed.
American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical
Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
Konzett, Delia C. Ethnic
Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the
Aesthetics of Dislocation. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Schoen, Carol. Anzia
Yezierska. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. PS3547 .E95 Z88
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