Title: Hungry hearts
First published: 1920
Description: Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish fiction, Jews, Social life and customs, Immigrants, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), New york (state), fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, general, Judeus, Literatura norte americana, Jewish Short stories
Places: New York, New York (State), Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.), New York (N.Y.)