The story of a young, aspiring Jewish woman from the ghetto who will do anything to get her man in this case an upper-class WASP. When she discovers he is not really what she wanted, she will do anything to get away. Based on the...

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception...

Lost masterpiece of ten tales by Jewish-American author of the early 20th century, set in New York City's Lower East Side, provides rich psychological portraits of immigrant mothers and daughters. von Yezierska, Anzia