By Barbara A. Shreier
Softcover, 154pp, 1995
The idea for this book began with two stories, both written by Jewish women, who left Eastern Europe as girls and grew up as becoming American women. Rose Cohen and Anzia Yezierska wrote about what they knew-the hope for new opportunities, the strains of dislocation, and the struggle for assimilation. Their highly personal accounts encourage our understanding of the turn-of-the-century immigration experience as a constant balancing act between the inheritance of the past and the promise of the future. Their stories also provide a unique look at the newcomers' preoccupation with dress as an especially meaningful instrument of cultural transformation.
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