Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970) was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels, and an autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse.
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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 woma... SEE MORE