Religious and spiritual fiction

Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side.

A young writer finds inspiration and purpose in the suffering of her brethren.

A mother goes from poverty to wealth, expecting happiness but only finding a cruel Catch-22.

A student is denied her diploma because of her unsightly appearance due to her grueling life going to school and supporting herself in grinding poverty, making her rebel against the divisions of class.

Poverty separates a happy couple forever, marking their lives as lifestyles separate them.

A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty.

A mother dances on the edge of self-destruction when she paints her kitchen white for her son returning home from the military but has her rent raised by her cruel landlord as a response.

Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920.

A sequel to 'Wings', Peshah gets a job at a shirtwaist factory where one of the workers falls in love with her.

Bread Givers is a coming of age story set in the 1920s.

Shenah Peshah a young lonely janitress living a painfully secluded life in poverty.

For the Temple, A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G.