
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 of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards...

First published in 1925, Bread Givers is Anzia Yezierska's powerful novel of immigration, generational conflict, and female self-determination in early twentieth-century New York. The story follows Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox...

First published in 1925, Bread Givers is Anzia Yezierska's powerful novel of immigration, generational conflict, and female self-determination in early twentieth-century New York. The story follows Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox...

A timeless American novel about an immigrant girl growing up on the Lower East Side who dares to challenge her Orthodox Jewish family's narrow conceptions of a woman's place in the world, featuring a new foreword by the author of the New York Times bestseller Unorthodox―the...

First published in 1925, Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers" is the tale of a young Jewish-American immigrant woman and her struggle to control her own destiny in Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. The novel is based in large part on Yezierska's own life...

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 of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards...


A determined young woman challenges her Jewish immigrant family's rigid norms in this "raw, uncontrollable" (The New York Times) classic American novel More and more I began to think inside myself, I don't want to sell herring for the rest of my days...
Release Date: Jan 12, 2027









Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up to his four daughters and his wife to support him...

Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s. As the novel begins Sara Smolinsky is a 10-year-old girl whose family has immigrated to New York City from Poland. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi who feels that it is up to his four daughters and his wife to support him...

2024 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the life story of Anzia Yezierska and her struggle as a Jewish immigrant woman.The novel is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan...

"Bread Givers" is a poignant and powerful novel that captures the struggle of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th century. Set in the teeming tenements of New York City's Lower East Side, the narrative centers on Sara Smolinsky, a young woman determined to forge...