The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

About Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierskawas a Jewish-American novelist born in Maly Plock, 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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