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The tenement writer : an immigrant's story / by Ben Sonder ; Alex Haley, general editor ; illustrations by Meryl Rosner.
LIBRA PS3547.E95 Z89 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonder, Ben, 1954-
- Series:
- Stories of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970--Juvenile literature.
- Yezierska, Anzia.
- Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970.
- National Book Committee.
- Women and literature--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.
- Women and literature.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, American.
- Immigrants.
- Jews.
- New York (State)--New York--Lower East Side.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970--Juvenile literature.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women and literature--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile literature.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, [1993]
- Summary:
- Follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer.
- Contents:
- Hunger
- Promised land
- Settling in
- Working
- Escape
- On her own
- 1918
- Here was a person.
- ISBN:
- 0811472353
- 9780811472357
- 0811480755
- 9780811480758
- OCLC:
- 25787656
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