The Free Vacation House
Anzia Yezierska
- 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.
- Anzia
- Yezierska
- wrote
- about
- the
- struggles
- of
- female
- Jewish
- immigrants
- in
- New
- York's
- Lower
- East
- Side.
- She
- confronted
- the
- cost
- of
- acculturation
- and
- assimilation
- among
- immigrants.
- Her
- stories
- provide
- insight
- into
- the
- meaning
- of
- liberation
- for
- immigrants—particularly
- Jewish
- immigrant women.
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