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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, 2004, p.600
Ort / Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
As a child of perhaps eight or nine, Anzia Yezierska joined the throng of Jewish emigrants fleeing religious persecution in Eastern Europe. With her family, she left the small shtetl of Plinsk, arriving in New York probably around 1890. The difficult early years, the smells and sounds of the Lower East Side where she lived, poverty and its lasting effects on family relationships and friendships—these became the enduring topics of Anzia Yezierska’s work. But its themes were much broader, touching on such huge issues as the meaning of America, the democracy it promised, and the terrible loneliness awaiting those