Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska’s novel, The Bread Givers, is an extensive observation of relationships in an immigrant family of early twentieth century America. Many social and political implications are made throughout the novel about the relationship between “Americans” and immigrants. All the characters fight their own wars in finding their peace between the Old World from which they come and the New in which they are struggling to survive. But none have a more interesting relationship as Reb Smolinsky and his youngest daughter, Sara.