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From Plotzk to Boston
Mary Antin
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An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from Plotzk in 1894 to join their father, who had journeyed to the “Promised Land” of America three years before. Fourth class railroad cars packed to suffocation, corrupt crossing guards, luggage and persons crudely “disinfected” by German officials who feared the cholera, locked “quarantine” portside, and, finally, the steamer voyage and a family reunited. For anyone who has ever wondered what it was like for their grandparents or great grandparents to emigrate from Europe to the United States last century, this is a fascinating narrative. Mary Antin went on to become an immigration rights activist.
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from Plotzk in 1894 to join their father, who had journeyed to the “Promised Land” of America three years before. Fourth class railroad cars packed to suffocation, corrupt crossing guards, luggage and persons crudely “disinfected” by German officials who feared the cholera, locked “quarantine” portside, and, finally, the steamer voyage and a family reunited. For anyone who has ever wondered what it was like for their grandparents or great grandparents to emigrate from Europe to the United States last century, this is a fascinating narrative. Mary Antin went on to become an immigration rights activist.
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Brief account of a young girl and her family's journey from Russia to America. The father has preceded them and after 3 years, they are finally able to join him. The children and their mother encounter multiple obstacles along the way, especially in passing into Germany. Since cholera was raging at
It was a fascinating read in the author's retelling of her journey from Russia the U.S. The ordeal was filled with emotional trials and hardships as made her way to America. The book is based on her memories as a child in making this trip. It was interesting to view it from this point of view. It wa
This was an interesting book written by an eleven year old in Yiddish and then later translated by the same girl when she was thirteen.
Mary Antin is a Russian Jew who describes her and her mother and siblings' journey in 1894 from Russia on a train through Germany and finally on a boat to America. S
A DELIGHT TO READ.
At a very young age, Mary Antin exhibited an incredible facility for using words to capture and illuminate experience. In her narrative, ‘From Plotzk to Boston,’ with lucid and luminescent prose, she shares an insider’s view of the Russian-Jewish emigration experience—its agonies a