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Having spent his entire life wrapped up in the study of the Torah and other holy books, Reb Smolinsky lives in his own private world of religious study, a world that is sometimes highly incompatible with the one in which the rest of his family lives. His days and nights are focused on the promise of heaven and offering charitable contributions ...
Synopsis. "Bread Givers" a three-volume novel of a Jewish-American female coming-of-age story set in the 1920s written by Anzia Yezierska. 10-year-old Sara Smolinsky is the protagonist and narrator of Bread Givers. Sara lives in a tenement with her Orthodox Jewish father, Reb Smolinsky, her mother, Shenah, and her three older sisters ...
Reb Smolinsky. The head of the Smolinsky family and Sara’s major antagonist. Extremely dedicated in his religious beliefs, Reb Smolinsky has devoted his entire life to studying the Torah and other Jewish holy books. The spirit he gathers from these studies fills him with a holy light that leaves others in awe but causes family problems when ...
- Anzia Yezierska
- 1925
Reb Smolinski, referred to as Father, a Polish-born despotic zealot and Hebrew scholar who stubbornly applies the literal meaning of the principles of the Torah to life in America. Reb’s ...
Her struggle to escape from the slums to an independent American life is fictionalized as Sara Smolinksy's journey in Bread Givers (1925), originally subtitled, "A Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New." It is the most closely autobiographical of Yezierska's early works.
Reb Smolinsky. Reb Smolinsky is the head of the Smolinsky family. His main function in the family is not being the patriarchal example, but more of a spiritual leader. Reb moved to America with his family to escape Poland's political pitfalls but since he refuses to work, he is dependent on his family financially to provide for him and his ...
Written by Micola Magdalena. The novel starts by presenting the Smolinsky family, a Jewish family living on the brick of poverty. The reason behind this is that the father of the family, Reb Smolinsky refuses to work and choses instead to stay all day inside and read holly books.
