Anzia Yezierska
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Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist. She was born in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, the youngest of nine children. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side ghetto.
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Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist. She was born in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, the youngest of nine children. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side ghetto. Her depictions of turn-of-the-century Jewish-American life - Hungry Hearts, Salome of the Tenements, and Bread Givers - won her acclaim in the 1920s, and she briefly worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
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