Bread Givers

Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. New York, NY: Persea Books, 2003. Print. ISBN: 0892552905. PBK. $8.00.

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Included in Jesse Larsen's 500 Great Books by Women

Annotation: The first quarter of the 20th Century proved to be a groundbreaking period for women across the United States. In this novel the struggle for one young Jewish woman of the New World is to find her place while her father desperately tries to keep her living in the Old World's ways.

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Why cannot my father leave me be? I want to experience the world. I want to have a taste of everything and then decide for myself if it is good or bad. I am tired of being told how a nice young Jewish maiden must only busy herself with becoming ready for her pending marriage to a nice young Jewish man. But here in America, "where girls pick out for themselves the men they want for husbands, how grand would it be if the children could also pick out their fathers and mothers" (76).

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