contact us | site guide | search  •  Reading Guide » Link RESOURCE MENU Reading Guide » Link Link Page 6.  Anzia Yezierska, "The Lost Beautifulness" and "Soap and Water," short stories in Hungry Hearts, 1920 (PDF)     Jewish family, New York tenement, 1912    Printing Length: 13 pages Online Source  National Humanities Center Supplemental sites Hungry Hearts, full text, from A Celebration of Women Writers, from Mary Mark, University of Pennsylvania Library Anzia Yezierska, overview from MyJewishLearning.com Anzia Yezierska, overview from Houghton Mifflin The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912: General Web Resources For more on the immigrant experience during this period, see "The American Jewish Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Acculturation" and "Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America," in Divining America: Religion in American History on TeacherServe® from the National Humanities Center. *PDF file - You will need software on your computer that allows you to read and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, you may download it FREE from Adobe's Web site. Toolbox: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912 Memory | Progress | People | Power | Empire Contact Us | Site Guide | Search Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature National Humanities Center Web site comments and questions, contact: nhc_ed@nationalhumanitiescenter.org Copyright © 2005 National Humanities Center. All rights reserved. Revised: May 2005 nationalhumanitiescenter.org