Anzia Yezierska (1880–1970) emigrated from Russian Poland to the United States in 1890 when she was eight years old. She later wrote about her experiences growing up in a Jewish ghetto in New York City, including working in sweatshops while going to college and dealing with the clash of cultures between the “old world” and the “new.” In Bread Givers, a three-volume novel set in New York City’s Lower East Side, Yezierska describes the life of an immigrant Jewish family through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Sara Smolinsky.