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Yezierska's New York

(This picture is at  http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/heaven/les1.html)

The picture above shows a street on the Lower East Side of New York City at the time when Anzia Yezierska grew up there.

For background information about her story "College," read more about Anzia Yezierska, the immigration of Jews and others to the United States, and immigrant life in a New York tenement.