Salome of the Tenements

Name: Salome of the Tenements
Author: Anzia Yezierska

by Anzia Yezierska

Novel of a young immigrant woman navigating love, poverty, and social climbing 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.

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Bread GiversNovel of a young woman escaping her father's tyranny to build an independent life in America
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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