Bread Givers : A Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New World

by YEZIERSKA A

• ISBN13: 9780892550142
• ISBN10: 0892550147
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780892552900
• Edition: 25th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence

Table of Contents

BOOK I HESTER STREET
Hester Street	I
The Speaking Mouth of the Block	24	(11)
The Burden Bearer	35	(18)
The ``Empty-Head''	53	(14)
Morris Lipkin Writes Poetry	67	(22)
The Burden Bearer Changes Her Burden	89	(22)
Father Becomes a Business Man in America	111	(17)
The Hard Heart	128	(11)
Bread Givers	139	(16)
BOOK II BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
I Shut The Door	155	(10)
A Piece of Meat	165	(8)
My Sisters And I	173	(6)
Outcast	179	(6)
A Man Wanted Me	185	(17)
On and On---Alone	202	(7)
College	209	(28)
BOOK III THE NEW WORLD
My Honeymoon with Myself	237	(5)
Death in Hester Street	242	(15)
Lodge Money	257	(12)
Hugo Seelig	269	(12)
Man Born of Woman	281