Interweaving autobiography with history, introspection and political commentary, Mary Antin recounts the process of "uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development that took place in my own soul", and reveals the impact of a new culture on her family.
This picture-book biography tells the story of Mary Antin, a Russian-Jew who fled Eastern Europe in the 1890s. When she arrived in America at the age of 13, she settled in Boston with the rest of her family--she couldn't believe the wonderful change of life she experienced in the States. When she was older, she wrote her famous autobiography ...
A selection of letters written throughout Mary Antin's life, this text includes her correspondence with a wide range of people from Israel Zangwill and Theodore Roosevelt to Zionists Horace Kallen and Bernard G. Richards, as well as the writer and editor Louis Lipsky and Rabbi Abraham Cronbach.
Mary Antin (1881-1949) was an American author and immigration rights activist. Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk, she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894. She later moved to New York City where she attended Teachers College of Columbia University and Barnard College. Antin is best known for her 1912 autobiography ...
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