Woodrow Wilson’s League Of Nations Speech And Yezierska’s The Bread Givers

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aura, and eventually decides it’s more important than her father’s preaching. Sara has also inherited a large part of her father’s tenacity, and uses it in her own particular way to achieve her goals. This equality of willpower, this sameness of temperament between Sara and her father is necessary for their ability to resist each other’s choices. No one else in the family has the necessary rigidity to stand up against the father in a decisive way. In the struggle between the Old and New Worlds, the Old keeps winning. When Fania falls in love with Lipkin, Sara steps in and says, “Father, didn’t you yourself say yesterday that poverty is an ornament on a good Jew, like a red ribbon on a white horse?,” but he has a classic response for her: “ You compare a man who works for G-d, a man who holds up the flames of the holy Torah before the world, to this schnorrer?” (70). Apparently, if a man is poor, unless he is the spitting image of Reb Smolinsky, he is a schnorrer. Fania does ...

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to G-d. A man’s prestige, authority, and position
depended to a considerable extent on his learning. Those
who were learned sat at the eastern wall of the synagogue,
near the Holy Ark. Women often became the breadwinners so
their husbands could devote themselves to study, while
householders thought it their duty, indeed privilege, to support
precocious sons-in law studying the Holy Word” (8-9, italics mine).

This, in essence, summarizes the roles of Reb Smolinsky and his daughters, especially Bessie. They are there, along with their mother, to bear the burden of the family while the Reb studies other worldly knowledge. Bessie’s role as Burden bearer is so vital to ...

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