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Bread Givers
Bread Givers Bread Givers: Bread Givers shows the life of a Jewish family in modernizing America during the early 1900's, but it focuses in on a young girl who's father is a Rabbi that does nothing but teach the Holy Torah all day and does no work to earn money. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * © Copyright DueNow.com Inc. * [Category]: Book Reports [Paper Title]: Bread Givers [Text]: Bread Givers shows the life of a Jewish family in modernizing America during the early 1900's, but it focuses in on a young girl who's father is a Rabbi that does nothing but teach the Holy Torah all day and does no work to earn money. During this time period it was hard on almost all Jewish families and this family was seeing this now, the inability of getting a decent job, and most of all, the need to find a suitable husband. All of the family works hard except for the father, he is always out preaching the Torah while his daughters earn the only income the family gets. He was a 'religious freak' that did nothing else to help his family through their hardships. And the thing that bothered me, the reader, the most was the fact that the daughters had to do all the work for the family and their father still had total control over them in just about every aspect if not all. The biggest part was controlling who they marry to. The first showing of this power was apparant when his oldest daughter, Bessie, brought home a nice young man that she liked a great deal and vice-versa. But the young man was not in the upper-class that the father wanted and though that he would be a burden so he drove his daughter's love away over money. The youngest dauaghter though figured that she would not be controlled by her father and decided to run away with only a few dollars and start a somewhat new life. After finding a small room that she could live in, she got a very tough job considering the pay was so little. But with this little pay she was able to survive and keep the rent going long enough to get into school. After long, brutal, endless days and nights of studying she finally got into a college in the suburbs of New York but she didn't fit in with anyone. After finally getting out of college she got a job at a small elementary school and made good money especially compared to what he had made in her previous jobs. But she soon recieved word that her moth... This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Academic Library. Please register below now!
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