All I Could Never Be

A Novel

By:

Anzia Yezierska

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Paperback / softback

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In this heartfelt novel, written in 1932, Fanya Ivanowna, a Polish Jew from New York's Lower East Side, meets Henry Scott, a well-bred professor who first helps her fulfill her ambition to become a writer, then falls in love with her-but only to change his mind and rebuff her socially. Fanya is hurt, but instead of returning to the ghetto to live among "her own people," as so many have done before her, she decides to continue to better herself, to become more American. She moves to a small New England town, where she meets her soulmate, a non-Jewish Polish immigrant, and prepares to make a home. A moving portrait of an indomitable immigrant woman, as well as an early and optimistic story of Jewish assimilation and inter-marriage, with an introduction by Dr. Catherine Rottenberg, who places the book within the context of Yezierska's work and Jewish American history.

Author Biography:

Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970) was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels-all autobiographical-and an autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse (Persea). Her novel Bread Givers (Persea) is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction. Her acclaimed books also include How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage. She died in 1970. Catherine Rottenberg teaches American literature and gender studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Release date Australia

January 12th, 2021

Author

Anzia Yezierska

Contributor

Introduction by Catherine Rottenberg

Pages

256

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

135x206x20

ISBN-13

9780892554652

Product ID

23078507

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