Anzia Yezierska

…followed in the footsteps of Anzia Yezierska, a prolific writer of the 1920s whose passionate books about immigrant Jews, especially Bread Givers (1925), have been rediscovered by contemporary feminists.

…to New York, such as Anzia Yezierska, represent Yiddish speakers in their English-language fiction. Many of Yezierska’s characters in Hungry Hearts (1920), for example, speak English that is Yiddish-inflected; some phrases are translated word-for-word from Yiddish expressions. In the masterpiece of American Jewish immigrant fiction, Henry Roth’s novel Call It…