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Bread Givers
by Anzia Yezierska
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Reception
6:30 pm Discussion
7:15 pm -9:00 pm
Miami Dade College
Kendall Campus, Room K-413
11011 SW 104th St. Miami, FL
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Reception
6:30
pm - 7:15 pm with hors d'oeuvres, dramatic
readings, music by Professor Jay Brown,
and art installation by Alberto Meza, Florida
Professor of the Year, 2004
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Discussion
Join us 7:15 pm
- 9:00 pm
for a lecture followed by a discussion with Professor Cary Ser,
English Department, Miami Dade College
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“The
work of Anzia Yezierska constitutes one of the
authentic and touching testaments of the
struggle of Jewish immigrants, especially Jewish
women, to find their way in the new world…This
book should be of interest to all those for
whom the immigrant memory still vibrates. –
Irving Howe
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“Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers is a
welcome addition to the autobiographical sources
from which to reconstruct the past experience of
American women. This lively story of the Jewish
immigrant’s familiar struggle from rags to
respectability is unusual in bringing us the
woman’s viewpoint. The author’s desperate
struggle against her father’s Old-World tyranny
over the women in his household is often
touching and makes for good reading.” –Gerda
Lerner
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“Only if they cooked for men, and washed for
men, and didn’t nag and curse the men out of
their homes; only if they let the men study the
Torah in peace, then, maybe, they could push
themselves into heaven with the men, to wait on
them there.”
Sara
Smolinsky was the youngest daughter of a rabbi
and these were the tenets of her world. But one
day Sara rebelled. She left home, got a job as
an ironer, and took a room of her own. “This
door was life. It was air. The bottom
starting-point of becoming a person. I simply
must have this room with the shut door.”
Anzia Yezierska wrote Bread Givers more than
half a century ago. Today, the power and
intensity of her message remain intact.
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