Anzia

Cecelia Ager
... Cecelia's aunt was Anzia Yezierska, known for her sensitive writing about the immigrant Jewish experience in New York ... Anzia's uncle, Meyer Yeziersky/Max Mayer was the first of his family to immigrate to the US ... Anzia arrived in 1901 after the rest of the family had joined him in adopting his first name as their surname in the US ...

Anzia Yezierska - Personal Life
... Anzia Yezierska was born in the 1880s in Maly Plock to Bernard and Pearl Yezierski ... family assumed the surname Mayer, while Anzia took Harriet (or Hattie) as her first name ... She later reclaimed her original name, Anzia Yezierska, in her late twenties ...