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Anzia Yezierska (1881 - 1970) was born in Pinsk, Poland, and emigrated to New York City when she was a teenager. She wrote about the struggles of Jewish and later Puerto Rican immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. Her most studied work Bread Givers (ISBN 0892550147) follows the story of young woman while struggling to live from day to day struggles to find her place in Jewish and American culture. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version