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Anzia Yezierska

Born

in Mały Płock, Vistula Land, Russian Empire

October 29, 1880

Died

November 20, 1970

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 8,196 ratings · 827 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-Harris (Foreword/Introduction) 3.75 avg rating — 7,024 ratings — published 1925 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska, Blanche H. Gelfant (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 1920 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salome of the Tenements 3.48 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1923 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arrogant Beggar 3.70 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Found America: Collected Stories 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story by Anzia Yezierska, Louise Levitas Henriksen (Afterword), W.H. Auden (Introduction) 3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1981 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Beautifulness 3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soap and Water 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat of the Land 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

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“I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.”
― Anzia Yezierska

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“For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.”
― Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts

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