onomically successful by making a quick fortune through legal, somewhat legal and often clearly illegal ventures. Fania's husband and Max Goldstein represent that part of young Jewish community. Those young men substituted education with sheer aggressive drive, burning motivation, quick wit, and often willingness to break the law if it was profitable. As Max Goldstein said, "It's money that makes the wheels go round. With my money I can have college graduates working for meI can hire them and fire them. And they, with all their education, are under my feet, just because I got the money."Through the lives of different characters the author tells about struggles and sacrifices that any emigrants have to face when they come to a new country and try to get on their feet. The first generation usually gains the least, because older people already have deeply rooted cultural traditions and language barrier that do not let them to assimilate and to feel fully at home in the new place. Just like Sarah's parents in "Bread Givers" the majority of first generation older emigrants that I know feel somewhat alienated and disadvantaged in America. Many of them were nave and thought that America was a Golden Amadina where "money grows on the trees". Many were intelligent enough to realize that they were going to a tough land of opportunities where they would have to fight and struggle for a spot under the sun. But those who were realistic came here anyway, because they hoped for a better future for their children who could fully benefit from new opportunities, ethnic equality, and democracy that the New World had to offer....
