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Another Great Thrift Store Read!
I picked this book out of our book cart – it caught my eye as I have been doing genealogy on my dad’s side of the family. My Grandpa Joe was also from Russia, also a Jew, also growing up in the Lower East Side, determined to get out. Most of the action in Bread Givers is set on Hester Street, 6 blocks from where my immigrant grandfather was living in 1900 (on Ludlow, down the street from Katz’s). Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was originally published in 1925, and …”follo
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