Hungry Hearts

Name: Hungry Hearts
Author: Anzia Yezierska

by Anzia Yezierska

Story collection portraying the dreams and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York

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Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska wrote burning fiction about Jewish immigrant women struggling for freedom and identity in New York's Lower East Side. Bread Givers is her masterpiece, a semiautobiographical novel of generational conflict.

More by Anzia Yezierska

Bread GiversNovel of a young woman escaping her father's tyranny to build an independent life in America
Salome of the TenementsNovel of a young immigrant woman navigating love, poverty, and social climbing in New York
Arrogant BeggarNovel depicting a woman's struggle against family expectations and social prejudice
Red Ribbon on a White HorseMemoir of the author's life among bohemians and her journey from poverty to recognition